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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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Contradictions Within the Black Panther Contradictions Within the Black Panther
Date: 9/17/1974Call Number: KP 031Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bruce SolowayProgram: Contradictions Within the Black Panther PartyCollection: Black Panther Party general
The Black Panther Party Intercommunal Section in Algiers, demanding the expulsion of David Hilliard and criticizing Huey Newton. Released by the East Coast Ministry of Information in New York, March 4, 1971. Recorded in Algiers on videotape, February 28, 1971. This is basically a compilation of testimonials of high profile Panther Party members speaking on the contradictions within the party, namely the expulsion of certain members expelled because of their less than favorable public image or agenda. Judy Douglass declared insane by people in the central party. Everyone speaking here is calling for the expulsion of David Hilliard from his position as Chief of Staff for the Black Panther party. Also testimonials for reinstatement of New York Panther 21 and Geronimo.
Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101 Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/12/2007Call Number: C 10 031Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Former leader of the BPP, now Professor of Law at Emory and Yale Universities and an expert on COINTELPRO.
Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101 Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/12/2007Call Number: C 10 073Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Former leader of the BPP, now Professor of  Law at Emory and Yale Universities and an expert on COINTELPRO.
Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101 Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/12/2007Call Number: C 10 074Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Former leader of the BPP, now Professor of  Law at Emory and Yale Universities and an expert on COINTELPRO.
Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101 Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/12/2007Call Number: C 10 086Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Former leader of the BPP, now Professor of  Law at Emory and Yale Universities and an expert on COINTELPRO.
Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 130Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and helped to organize the campaign to get Huey Newton released from prison. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Black Panthers Central Committee. Kathleen continues to struggle for civil and human rights and teaches law at Emory University.