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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.
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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Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners
Date: 12/1/1990Call Number: PM 219Format: CassetteProducers: Zenzile Khoisan, Sally O’BrienCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
A series on U.S Political Prisoners produced for the Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in United States Prisons and Jails. The series of profiles offer insight into the political activity, incarceration, and prison conditions of: Dr. Alan Berkman, Sekou Abdullah Odinga, Marilyn Buck, Assata Shakur, Bashir Hameed and Susan Rosenberg. They individually discuss their treatment as prisoners and specifically political prisoners. Other issues brought up are Black Liberation Movement, Panther 21 case, the relationship of revolutionary struggle to the mass movement, government and media depictions of revolutionaries, life in prison, and continued struggle and action within the prison system.
Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners
Date: 12/1/1990Call Number: CD 167Format: CDProducers: Zenzile Khoisan, Sally O’BrienCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A series on U.S Political Prisoners produced for the Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in United States Prisons and Jails. The series of profiles offer insight into the political activity, incarceration, and prison conditions of: Dr. Alan Berkman, whose discussion includes his work as a doctor and his treatment of fugitive and captured members of Liberation movements, the torture of political prisoners, his movement into underground activity, the nature of national liberation struggles in the U.S. and elsewhere, his experience as a grand jury resister, and the relationship between spontaneous political action and organized political action; Sekou Abdullah Odinga, who discusses his work as a "soldier of Black Liberation," his involvement in the Panther 21 case, his capture and torture, the popular depiction of radicals in the U.S., and the use of the legal and prison system in defusing radical activity; Marilyn Buck, who discusses her work as a North American Anti-Imperialist, her work with Black Liberation Army and her role in the liberation of Assata Shakur, political prisoners' depiction as terrorist, the disparate sentencing of political prisoners and prisoners of war, the prison conditions faced by political prisoners, and strategies for the furtherance of political struggle; Bashir Hameed, who discusses his work with the Black Panther Party, His role in the Black Liberation Movement, his multiple trials and the racist and biased treatment he received during these trials, media depiction of revolutionaries and liberation struggles, and the propensity of the general population to support revolutionary struggles; and Susan Rosenberg, who discusses her work as and what it means to be a "revolutionary humanist," the relationship of revolutionary struggle to the mass movement, government and media depictions of revolutionaries, life in prison, and continued struggle and action within the prison system.