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

Prison Mix, Native American mix, I Hotel mix from Roots of Resistance Prison Mix, Native American mix, I Hotel mix from Roots of Resistance
Call Number: CD 045Format: CDProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Prison Mix, Native American mix, I Hotel mix from Roots of Resistance
Ward Churchill: Doing Time, The Politics of Imprisonment Ward Churchill: Doing Time, The Politics of Imprisonment
Date: 9/15/2000Call Number: CD 063Format: CDProducers: AK PressCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Ward Churchill discusses how the US government has used all means to subvert and neutralize movements for social change. He focusses on the FBI’s counter intelligence program - COINTELPRO, their use in undermining dissent and the criminal (in)justice system’s role as an agent of social control.
My Life is My Sundance: Prison Writings of Leonard Peltier through the voice of Harvey Arden My Life is My Sundance: Prison Writings of Leonard Peltier through the voice of Harvey Arden
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: CD 200Format: CDProducers: Mi Abuelo RecordsCollection: Leonard Peltier
My Life is My Sundance. The prison writings of Leonard Peltier (read from his book of the same name) Thru the voice of Harvey Arden (unfortunately no Leonard Peltier) and the music of Rev. Goat & the New Orleans Light. 12 tracks
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: CD 383Format: DVDProducers: Michael AptedCollection: Leonard Peltier
Michael Apted's documentary is an investigative report on the case of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist who was convicted of killing two F.B.I. agents in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge reservation, in South Dakota. Peltier (who has been serving time for the murders since 1977) was railroaded by the F.B.I. The filmmakers concentrate on demonstrating that Leonard didn't get a fair trial. Apted guides us through this tangle of ambiguous evidence and back-and-forth legal maneuvering with patient, unobtrusive skill, and the cool rationality of his manner makes the movie's arguments seem all the more irrefutable. Narrated by Robert Redford (who is also the executive producer).
Leonard Peltier Case Leonard Peltier Case
Call Number: KP 173Format: CassetteCollection: Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier speaks about the unjust treatment of the Native American people and the case he wants to bring to the United Nations.
Organizing Guide for Educators & Activists on the Crisis in Prisons Organizing Guide for Educators & Activists on the Crisis in Prisons
Publisher: Prison Activist Resource CenterDate: 3/21/1997Volume Number: 21-MarFormat: MonographCollection: Prisons - Stats, General
Section One: Directory of Organizations; Section two: Bibliography; Section Three: Examples of Recent Activism
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 8 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Open Letter To the Movement: BARC, George Jackson Brigade, A Comrade on the Weather Underground, New World Liberation Front, Red Guerrilla Family, Black Liberation Army, Political Fugitives Statement, Graham and Allen Sentenced to Death, California Institute for Women