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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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COINTELPRO 101 Panel at Critical Resistance COINTELPRO 101 Panel at Critical Resistance
Date: 10/6/2008Call Number: CD 589Format: DVDProducers: Joe LiesnerCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Panel on COINTELPRO includes Puerto Rican activist Elliot Monteverde, former U.S. senator Cynthia McKinney, Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School Soffiyah Elijah, and Puerto Rican independenista Lucy Rodriguez discussing the history and contemporary relevance of understanding government repression of progressive movements. Moderated by Claude Marks
Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 10/2/2008Call Number: C 10 033Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Puerto Rican Independentista and former Political Prisoner. Speaks of the Puerto Rican Movement and its effort to combat government oppression.
Puerto Rican POWs Puerto Rican POWs
Date: 7/16/1992Call Number: C 10 043Format: Mini DVCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Interviews from FCI Dublin of two Puerto Rican political prisoners.
Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 10/2/2008Call Number: C 10 079Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Puerto Rican Independentista and former Political Prisoner. Speaks of the Puerto Rican Movement and its effort to combat government oppression.
Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 10/2/2008Call Number: C 10 080Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Puerto Rican Independentista and former Political Prisoner. Speaks of the Puerto Rican Movement and its effort to combat government oppression.
Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2) Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2)
Date: 10/2/2008Call Number: C 10 093Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Puerto Rican Independentista and former Political Prisoner. Speaks of the Puerto Rican Movement and its effort to combat government oppression.
Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2) Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2)
Date: 10/2/2008Call Number: C 10 094Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Puerto Rican Independentista and former Political Prisoner. Speaks of the Puerto Rican Movement and its effort to combat government oppression.
Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 Lucy Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/27/2007Call Number: C 10 124Format: Mini DVCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Puerto Rican Independentista and former Political Prisoner. Speaks of the Puerto Rican Movement and its effort to combat government oppression.
Desde Las Rejas: Statements by the Eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War In the Concentration Camp of Cook County Desde Las Rejas: Statements by the Eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War In the Concentration Camp of Cook County
Authors: Carmen Valentin, Elizam Escobar, Lucy Rodriguez, Dylcia Pagan, Alfredo Mendez, Alicia Rodriguez, Luis Rosa, Adolfo Matos, Ricardo Dick Jiminez, Carlos Alberto TorresPublisher: FALNDate: 4/28/1980Volume Number: April 28Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Statements and Declarations by the FALN 11.
Towards a 1992 without Puerto Rican Prisoners of War or Political Prisoners Towards a 1992 without Puerto Rican Prisoners of War or Political Prisoners
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersFormat: PamphletCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
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