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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.
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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.
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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.
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Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101 Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 11/12/2008Call Number: C 10 034Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Interview about Cointelpro.
Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101 Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 11/12/2008Call Number: C 10 069Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Interview about Cointelpro.
Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101 Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 11/12/2008Call Number: C 10 070Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Interview about Cointelpro.
Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 136Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1985Volume Number: Vol. 9-1 Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Disturbing their Peace p. 2 - The Next Wave: Thoughts on Revolutionary Feminism p. 4 - Azania: the Fire This Time by New Afrikan People's Organization p. 15 - De Pie y en Guerra, interview with Puerto Rican POW Oscar Lopez Rivera p. 23 - Don Juan Antonio Corretjer 1908-1985 p. 25 - The New Right: with God on Their Side p. 35 - From the Clandestine Movement: Red Guerrilla Resistance Bombs NY Patrolmen's Benevolent Association p. 45 - Can't Kill the Spirit: Staements from Revolutionary Prisoners: New York 8 p. 47 - Ohio Five p. 48 - Susan Rosenberg and Tim Blunk p. 50 - Write to the Prisoners p. 51
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1987Volume Number: Vol. 11-1 Winter-SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorials: Puerto Rico: Yankee Go Home p. 1 - Defend the Palestinian Revolution p. 4 - Contragate p. 6 - Chicago: Confronting the Racist Right p. 7 - Myth of Black Progress, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 17 - Kuwasi Balagoon 1946-1986 p. 21 - U.S. and Zaire Training African Contras p. 22 - Chile: Crisis in the Southern Cone p. 24 - Interview with Puerto Rican Patriot Rafael Cancel Miranda p. 31 - From the Clandestine Movement: Communiques from the Puerto Rican People's Army - Machateros p. 38 - On the Chicago Indictments p. 40 - Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit p. 41 - Statement by Watani Tyehimba to the Grand Jury p. 42 - Write Through the Walls p. 43 - Bill Wahpehpah 1937-1987 p. 45
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 13-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorrial: El Salvador p. 1 - Editorial - Political Prisoners in the US: Breaking the Silence p. 3 - Post-feminist Mystique by Judith Mirkinson p. 5 - We're PISD, We're Gonna Seize Control, Ferd Eggan PISD Caucus of ACT NOW p. 10 - Battlezone L.A, Makungu Akinyele, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 15 - Namibia and Angola: Free at Last? Felix Shafer p. 19 - Women of the Philippine Revolution, interview with Makibaka p. 22 - Mexico: Cardenas, the Left and the PRI, interview with Gabino Gomez, Comite de Defensa Popular p. 33 - Occupied Mexico: Land Struggle in Tierra Amarilla p. 37 - Write Through the Walls p. 43
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Panama: Drugs, Propaganda & Interventions p. 1 - Crisis in Socialism: the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie p. 3 - New Faces of Racism, Felix Shafer p. 5 - Fighting AIDS is More Than a Fashion Statement, Arawn Eibhlyn p. 10 - More Dyketactics for Difficult Times, Sally Thomas p. 18 - Puerto Rico: Plebiscite or Farce? Jose Lopez, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Puertorriquena p. 22 - El Salvador Offensive: "Our Expectations Were Surpassed" interview with Luis Flores, U.S. Representative of the FMLN p. 28 - Spike Did the Right Thing, Kamal Hassan, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 32 - Sex, Truth and Herstory: A History of Their Own by Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zissenr, reviewed by Judith Mirkinson p. 35 - Can't Kill the Spirit: Victory in Ohio 7 Trial p. 41 - Write Through the Walls p. 43
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 16-1 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Goodbye, Columbus: Thoughts on Western Civilization, Jimmy Emmerman p. 1 - El Salvador: the Road Ahead, interview with FMLN Representative Ramon Cardona p. 4 - A Feminist Guide to the Galaxy, Judith Mirkinson p. 9 - Backlash: the Undeclared War on American Women by Susan Faludi, reviewed by Sally Thomas p. 15 - De Ambiente, interviews with the Nicaraguan Movement of Lesbian Feminists and Gay Men p. 17 - Will Postmodernism Kill the Movement? Les Gottesman p. 24 - Black Women and AIDS: the Second Epidemic, Judy Gerber p. 32 - Supermax: Control Unit Prisons, Nancy Kurshan p. 40 - Can\'t Kill the Spirit: Political Prisoners Update p. 46 - Write Through the Walls p. 47
Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: PamphletCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
A pamphlet about day to day survival programs at the Centers already established in Los Angeles, Detroit, and the newest center in Atlanta.