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

International Efforts to end Vietnam War/Occupation of Wounded Knee/PFLP Hijackings/Puerto Rican Nationalist Party International Efforts to end Vietnam War/Occupation of Wounded Knee/PFLP Hijackings/Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Call Number: C 10 015Format: Beta SPCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Press conference with Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden about international efforts to end Vietnam war; interviews with Native Americans and Senator about the occupation of Wounded Knee by AIM; press conference with BBP member speaking about time in solitary confinement; speech about oil and resources; President Nixon speaks about energy; hijacking of plane by PFLP. News report on September 6, 1970 hijacking of 5 commerical planes by PFLP. Passengers escorted off the planes in Amman, Jorda, planes blown-up. Interview with Leila Khaled and other leaders of the PFLP. Interviews with passangers and responses of Israeli citizens. (Sound in/out) Clips of gas stations out of gas. Long line ups of cars. FBI press conference on the FALN bombings of October 27, 1975. Press conference with group of activists returning from North Vietnam (cut off); clips of Kathleen Cleaver; interview with Black Panther credited saying, “the only good pig is a dead pig”; news report on Puerto Rican Nationalist Party open fire on House of Representatives.
International Efforts to end Vietnam War/Occupation of Wounded Knee/PFLP Hijackings International Efforts to end Vietnam War/Occupation of Wounded Knee/PFLP Hijackings
Call Number: C 10 016Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Press conference with Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden about international efforts to end Vietnam war; interviews with Native Americans and Senator about the occupation of Wounded Knee by AIM; press conference with BBP member speaking about time in solitary confinement; speech about oil and resources; President Nixon speaks about energy; hijacking of plane by PFLP.
Screening of Introduction To The Enemy Screening of Introduction To The Enemy
Publisher: The Indochina Peace CampaignFormat: FlyerCollection: Vietnam
Introduction To The Enemy is a documentary by Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden about the effects of the war in Vietnam. Event held at Pitt Graduate School of Public Health
The Peace Movement: New Possibilities? The Peace Movement: New Possibilities?
Authors: Tom Hayden and Richard FlacksPublisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
A piece on the viability of the peace movement in early 1960s America.