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

Political Prisoners and Lesbian Resistance: An interview with Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn and Susan Rosenberg Political Prisoners and Lesbian Resistance: An interview with Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn and Susan Rosenberg
Author: Jennie McKnightPublisher: Gay Community NewsVolume Number: January 8Format: TranscriptCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Interview with three women political prisoners on lesbian organizing.
Talk with Assata Shakur in Cuba: Somewhere in Cuba Talk with Assata Shakur in Cuba: Somewhere in Cuba
Author: Assata ShakurYear: 1995Format: TranscriptCollection: Assata Shakur
Transcript of an interview conducted in Cuba in 1995.
Pacifica Radio Broadcast of Talk by Geronimo ji Jaga Pacifica Radio Broadcast of Talk by Geronimo ji Jaga
Author: Geronimo ji-JagaPublisher: Pacifica RadioDate: 10/1997Volume Number: OctoberFormat: TranscriptCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Transcript of talk given at Pasadena City College, Pasadena CA
Still Angry - After All These Years Still Angry - After All These Years
Authors: Robert Dannin and Jolie StahlFormat: TranscriptCollection: Donald Cox
Interview with Donald Cox
Interview with Kiili Nyasha Interview with Kiili Nyasha
Publisher: KPFADate: 6/21/1990Volume Number: June 21Format: TranscriptCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Women, Power, and Revolution Women, Power, and Revolution
Author: Kathleen CleaverPublisher: Howard University SymposiumFormat: TranscriptCollection: Black Panther Party Women
Firing Line: Interview with Huey P. Newton by William F. Buckley, Jr. Firing Line: Interview with Huey P. Newton by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Author: Huey NewtonPublisher: Firing LineYear: 1973Format: TranscriptCollection: Black Panther Party Articles From the 1970s
The U.S. Imperialist State and the Black Nation The U.S. Imperialist State and the Black Nation
Author: Saladine MuhammadPublisher: The Institute of Black Political StudiesFormat: TranscriptCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Speech initially given at a forum in the US Black National Question, along with another major speaker on the topic, Imini Baraka, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist League. Brother Saladin Muhammad is a member of the National Central Committee of the Afrikan Peoples Party.
Break the Cycle: Mass Incarceration of Women, Bodies, Families and communities Break the Cycle: Mass Incarceration of Women, Bodies, Families and communities
Publisher: Bonnie Kerness, American Friends Service CommitteeYear: 2004Format: TranscriptCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Discusses the incarceration of women and juvanile sin control unit style correctional facilities. Includes accounts of abuse and neglect.
US Abuse of International Human Rights Standards US Abuse of International Human Rights Standards
Publisher: Bonnie Kerness, American Friends Service CommitteeYear: 2000Format: TranscriptCollection: American Friends Service Committee
discusses US compliance with international agreements against torture, and US prison policy and the proliferation of control unit prisons. Kerness history in community organizing; conditions of control unit prisons discussed through anecdote; Use of extended isolation; Racially targeted policies;