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

The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 10-32 December 22Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Demand Mounts- Re-Open Fred Hampton Murder Case. Also Inside: Charges Against Fred Bell Dismissed; Black Students Hold Health Week; Free Southern Theater Attacked; New Welfare Program Jan. 1; Marine Court Martialed; Search and Destory Excerpt ; Azores Base for U.S. Aid to Portugal; U.S. Ends Talks on Namibia; Black Arts Festival in Berkeley, more.
Political Prisoners of California Letter to SLA Political Prisoners of California Letter to SLA
Author: Political Prisoners of CaliforniaDate: 3/1/1974Volume Number: 1-MarFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
A letter from Poltical Prisoners of California that thanks the SLA taking action and kidnapping Patricia Hearst because it resulted in food being given to the poor.
Open Letter to Mrs. Jaqueline Foster Open Letter to Mrs. Jaqueline Foster
Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This letter is written to Jacqueline Foster, wife of the assasinated Marcus Foster. It gives various reasons for his assasination.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 2 SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Introduction, Analysis of the Trial of Little and Remiro, Statement from Little and Remiro 1/18/74, Remiro and Little's Trial Statements: 4/4/75 & 4/18/75, Russ Little's Statement at Their Sentencing, Letter from Joe Remiro 8/16/75, On the Trials of Gary Garrison and Cameron Bishop, The Correct Handling of Communiques, New World Liberation Front Statement on Popeye Jackson, Peoples' Forces NWLF Respond to BARC/Orphans Criticism, Peoples' Forces NWLF Open Letter to Prisoners, A Letter to the NWLF, BARC Critique of Peoples' Forces NWLF, Jonathan Jackson/Sam Melville NWLF Communique, Poem from a Locked-Down Comrade
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 10 SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Central Command NWLF, Open Letter to BARC, People's Information Relay-1, A Sad Duty, BARC's Reply to the NWLF, Responses on Feminism/Homosexuality, Jim Parker, Ken Como, Dyke Daughter of a CIO Organizer, Dragon: Militant Reformism, Armed Struggle -- Revolutionary Vanguard, Seattle: News Update, Grand Jury Resistance, The Brigade, A Note to Snapdragon from Ed Mead, Criticism of the George Jackson Brigade from a Seattle Collective, New Dawn Infiltrated, Maryland Penitentiary Intercommunal, Survival Collective, News From Boston, California Prisons: On Trial (Remiro and Little), Trial Statements: Emily and Bill Harris