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

Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 2/14/2002Call Number: JH 668BFormat: Cass BProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Sebastia Salgado por chelis; Astrid hada; Fox? Bush por Jorge
Interview with Howard Zinn Interview with Howard Zinn
Date: 12/1/2000Call Number: KP 379AFormat: Cass AProducers: KPFAProgram: KPFACollection: North American Anti-Imperialists
Recorded shortly before the ruling for Bush over Gore for president. Zinn talks about electoral corruption in the US, the plight of 3rd and 4th party candidates, and compares the Bush vs.Gore election to that of Hayes vs. Tilden in 1876.
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Publisher: American Educational TrustYear: 2001Volume Number: Vol. 20-8 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
Special Section on September 11th, the US, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Also special reports on seven topics.
Palestine Focus Palestine Focus
Publisher: Palestine Solidarity Committee/Palestine FocusYear: 1990Volume Number: Jan-FebFormat: PeriodicalCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
This is the US American national newspaper of Palestine Solidarity Committee. Some of the featured articles in this edition include: An editorial on the US foreign Policy in the Middle East and an article about Jewish women muralists in Palestine.