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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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Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 11/1/1975Call Number: NI 086Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Nina SerranoProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program is dedicated to the five Puerto Rican National Party political prisoners, Lolita Lebron, Oscar Collazo, Irving Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, stemming from 1950 and 1954 attacks in Washington DC. Includes much actuality, including of Carlos Feliciano, at that time a recently released Puerto Rican Nationalist political prisoner.
POW Update POW Update
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersVolume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Puerto Rican Nationalist Prisoners of War are Free; Vieques Example of Valor; Contradictions of Andres' Funeral; Free Pablo and Nydia; Lares, Cradle of Our Army.
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 1 25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 1
Publisher: National Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Introduction; Factual Background; Petitioners; Standing; Exhaustion of Remedies; Accusation; Conclusion; Appendix.
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 2 25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 2
Publisher: National Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Memorandum from Lolita Lebron re: the case of Puerto Rico and its Nationalist Prisoners from the November 1, 1954 attack on the Capitol and Congress.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 4 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Introduction, Letter from Emily Harris, October 27, 1975, Lolita Lebron and Blanca Canales, Susan Saze Statement, June 9, 1975, On Being Underground -- Katherine Power and Susan Saxe, Colation Against Psychiatric Assault: Demonstration, A Collective Letter to the Women's Movement from the Women of the Weather Underground, WUO Women's Brigade bombs Dept of H.E.W., March 1974, Poem, Statement from Sisters of the Symbionese Liberation Army, October 21, 1975, Militant Women: a Brief History, Open Letter to the Fighting Forces, Puerto Rican Solidarity, New World Liberation Front Communique: Fort Ord