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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.
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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.

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Women Prisoners Dublin (1 of 2) Women Prisoners Dublin (1 of 2)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
Women Prisoners Dublin (2 of 2) Women Prisoners Dublin (2 of 2)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 134Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 063Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Slides of Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show to Save Mumia Abu Jamal Art & writings against the Death Penalty
Prison Panel at U.C.S.C. Prison Panel at U.C.S.C.
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: PM 294Format: Cass A & BCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Dr. David Anthony of UCSC, Romona Africa of MOVE and attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal Leonard Wineglass speak about the death penalty and related criminal justice topics.
Illegal Alien and First Amendment Hour Illegal Alien and First Amendment Hour
Date: 6/27/1996Call Number: PM 295Format: Cass A & BProducers: Free Radio BerkeleyProgram: Illegal Alien and First Ammendement HourCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Program on Mumia Abul-Jamal featuring attorney Leonard Wineglass, MOVE members Consuela and Carlos Africa and Barbara Frank of the Partisan Defense Committee.
Democracy Now: Mumia series and the death penalty Democracy Now: Mumia series and the death penalty
Date: 12/1/1995Call Number: PM 344Format: Cass A & BProducers: Amy GoodmanProgram: Democracy NowCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
This is a compilation tape (180 minutes) of various interviews and commentaries taken from a two week Democracy Now series including commentaries by Mumia Abu Jamal. The compilation touches on the case of Thomas Thompson (a CA death row inmate who was executed in 1998), the death penalty, the denial of journalism and media access to people on the inside, guard violence at Corcoran, "This Prison Where I Live: The Pen Anthology of Imprisoned Writers" edited by Siobhan Dowd, CIA violations in Guatemala, and an interview with Elizabeth Fink, the attorney who headed the inmates' law suits following the 1971 Attica rebellions.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Date: 4/14/1991Call Number: JG/ 147Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Speeches by Dhoruba Bin-Wahad and Lesbian and Gay Folks Supporting Political Prisoners, from an event in support of Black political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal entitled, “Lesbian and Gay Men: Is Political Activism a Crime Punishable by Death?”, held in NY on 4/14/91.