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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.

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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.
Knowing Injustice - Part 2 Knowing Injustice - Part 2
Date: 9/21/1996Call Number: PM 307BFormat: Cass BCollection: Prisons - Women
Pam Africa speaks about freeing political prisoners, especially Mumia Abu-Jamal. The government and police should be held accountable for their actions. Maria Telesco highlights the injustices of death row and the death penalty for women prisoners.
Linn Washington Interview - Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal Linn Washington Interview - Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Call Number: JG/ 133Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Discussing evidence of police manipulation of the crime scene, racist jury selection, a racist judge, and proof that Mumia is innocent.
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.
B Roll: Black Panther Party, Mumia Abu-Jamal, San Francisco State Strike of 1968 B Roll: Black Panther Party, Mumia Abu-Jamal, San Francisco State Strike of 1968
Call Number: C 10 125Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Conglomerate of material: The Black Panther Party, Mumia Abu-Jamal (activist serving life sentence for murder of police officer - his innocence is debated), and SF State Strike of 1968 that established their own College of Ethnic Studies and influenced the establishment of many others.
28 Years of Solitary Confinement 28 Years of Solitary Confinement
Publisher: Angola 3 Support CommitteeFormat: PamphletCollection: Angola 3
Pamphlet with background information about the Angola 3, a piece by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a piece by Geronimo Pratt and contact information to support the Angola 3
Waiting Waiting
Author: Mumia Abu-JamalPublisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Mumia Abu-Jamal on the intense isolation and sense of waiting on death row.
National Coalition to Free the Angola 3 National Coalition to Free the Angola 3
Publisher: National Coalition to Free the Angola 3Date: 11/2000Volume Number: NovemberFormat: PamphletCollection: Angola 3
History of the Angola 3 case, writings by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Geronimo Pratt, Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace and Robert King Wilkerson.