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

Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1979Volume Number: No. 3 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Free the Pontiac Brothers! Demands to the California Department of Corrections from San Quentin Prisoners, Open Letter to Africans of British Isles from an African in N. America, LA County Jail Colonial Violence, Stop the New Prisons, Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!, Aisha Audeh Released from Israeli Prison, Support Minimum Wage Bill for Prisoners.
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1979Volume Number: No. 4 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Honor Fallen Freedom Fighters: Build Black August Month, Message from S.Q. Adjustment Center, Black Cultural Development and Revoluti onary Growth, Pontiac Update, Report from Folsom: Did Folsom Prison Of ficials have Complicity in Racist Attack on Blacks, Lewisburg Manifesto, B.L.A Under Attack, Call to Build a National Black Human Rights Coalition, Black Prison Guards, A Brief History on the Formation of ZANLA, Close Marion Control Unit!
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1980Volume Number: No. 6 February-AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Black Liberation Movement Re-emerging, Assata is Free, Puerto Rican POW Murdered, Free Geronimo and All Political Prisoners Expose COINTELPRO, Statement of Support for the Iranian People, Peltier Convicted, On Incarcerated Mothers, Fleeta Drumgo Murdered, Open Letter from Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Pontiac Update, Chol Soo Lee Must be Free, Letter from Angola, LA., Handsoff Iran!, Support the Napanoch Brothers!, Dialectical Criticism of Slave Prisoner Mentality
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1981Volume Number: No. 10 December-JanuaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Message from Assata Shakur, Mockery of Justice in Pontiac Death Penalty, Free Leonard Peltier, Smash the Death Penalty, Women Prisoners Protest Harassment, Work Stoppage at Marion, Black prisoners call for unity, Geronimo Pratt.
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Regional Young Adult ProjectYear: 1981Volume Number: No. 11 April-MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: National demonstrations to free the Pontiac Brothers!, Namibia will be Free, Puerto Rican Prisoners of War Respond to Sedition Charges, Peltier
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Regional Young Adult ProjectYear: 1981Volume Number: No. 12 July-AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Stories: Pontiac Brothers Acquitted; Atlanta Means Genocide
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1980Volume Number: No. 7 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Story: 17 Pontiac Brothers Face Death Penalty
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1979Volume Number: No. 5 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Story: Open Letter to Black People in US Prisons
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1982Volume Number: No. 14 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Support New African Freedom Fighters; The Necessity of Armed Fighters; From Sekou Odinga- New Afrikan Prisoner of War