Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

Statement by People Occupying South African Airways Statement by People Occupying South African Airways
Date: 12/6/1984Volume Number: 6-DecFormat: StatementCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
States reason for occupying South African Airways in San Francisco - no business as usual until apartheid overthrown
Embargo South Africa Not Nicaragua! Embargo South Africa Not Nicaragua!
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeFormat: StatementCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Statement re: Reagan imposing trade embargo against Nicaragua, yet saying sanctions against South Africa won't work
Declaration to the International Community Regarding the Crime of Genocide Against the People of Puerto Rico Declaration to the International Community Regarding the Crime of Genocide Against the People of Puerto Rico
Publisher: Movimiento de Liberacion NacionalFormat: StatementCollection: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional
Table Contents- Education: Instrument for the Destruction of the National Culture; Forced Emigration: Dispersion of the Puerto Rican Nation; Public Health: Tool for the Decimation of the Puerto Rican Nation; Repression: Physical Destruction of the Independence Movement and the Puerto Rican People; Conclusion.
Statement from the US Poltical Prisoners to Nelson Mandela, Deputy VP of the African National Congress Statement from the US Poltical Prisoners to Nelson Mandela, Deputy VP of the African National Congress
Author: Dhoruba Bin WahadDate: 6/21/1990Volume Number: 21-JunFormat: StatementCollection: 1990 Tribunal
statement from one recently freed political prisoner to another.
Live Like John Brown! Live Like John Brown!
Format: StatementCollection: Moncada Library
Keep Assata Shakur Free! Keep Assata Shakur Free!
Format: StatementCollection: Moncada Library
Fight White Supremacy! Fight White Supremacy!
Format: StatementCollection: Moncada Library
Sexism and Namibian Society Sexism and Namibian Society
Author: Ottilie AbrahamsDate: 3/2/1990Volume Number: 2-MarFormat: StatementCollection: SWAPO- Namibia
Western Hypocrisy and Immorality Exposed: Plot Against Decolonization of Namibia Western Hypocrisy and Immorality Exposed: Plot Against Decolonization of Namibia
Authors: Sam Nujoma, President of SWAPODate: 5/2/1981Volume Number: 2-MayFormat: StatementCollection: SWAPO- Namibia