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

Kathleen Cleaver with Kiilu Nyasha Kathleen Cleaver with Kiilu Nyasha
Date: 8/25/1994Call Number: KN 005Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Kiilu NyashaProgram: interview for airCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Struggle By Kathleen Cleaver to represent Geronimo Ji Jaga at his parole hearing, Geronimo's case, COINTELPRO
Interview with Luis Talamantez, Willie Tate and David Johnson Interview with Luis Talamantez, Willie Tate and David Johnson
Call Number: SS 020AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Kiilu Nyasha interviews Luis Talamantez, Willie Tate and David Johnson, three of the San Quentin 6, about Comrade George Jackson and the prison system. The interviewees talk about the murder of George Jackson, the police cover-up of the murder, the San Francisco courtroom riot, the inhuman conditions in the prisons and the need for prison reforms in the United States.
Kiilu Nyasha Interviews Akua Njeri (formerly Fred Hampton’s wife) Kiilu Nyasha Interviews Akua Njeri (formerly Fred Hampton’s wife)
Date: 10/1/1999Call Number: PM 159Format: Cass A & BProducers: Kiilu NyashaCollection: Fred Hampton
Kiilu Nyasha interviews Akua Njeri (former wife of Fred Hampton) about his murder in December of 1969.
Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners
Date: 11/29/1991Call Number: PM 251Format: CassetteProducers: Prison RadioProgram: You Can’t Jail The Spirit #3Collection: New Afrikan Prisoners
About the Black political repression, exile, incarceration, and the criminal justice system's interference with political resistance through a discussion of the lives of Mumia Abu Jamal, Assata Shakur, and Geronimo Pratt. Soffiyah Elijah, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, and Kiilu Nyasha, discuss the criminalization of revolutionaries and the future of radical organizing.
Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners
Date: 11/29/1991Call Number: PM 390Format: CassetteProducers: Prison RadioProgram: You Can’t Jail The Spirit #3Collection: New Afrikan Prisoners
On Black political repression, exile, incarceration, and the criminal justice system's interference with political resistance through a discussion of the lives of Mumia Abu Jamal, Assata Shakur, and Geronimo Pratt. Soffiyah Elijah, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, and Kiilu Nyasha, discuss the criminalization of revolutionaries and the future of radical organizing.