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

People\'s Power in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau People\'s Power in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau
Publisher: Mozambique, Angola & Guine Information CentreYear: 1977Volume Number: No. 7-8 JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Frelimo in Congress, Attempted Coup in Luanda, Literacy in Guinea Bissau
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1977Volume Number: No. 6 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: Soweto: Era of Mass Struggles Begin; Soweto and the South African Economy; Southern African Liberation Movements Must Take a Stand Against Soviet Social Imperialism; The National Question in Azania: The Native Versus the National Question; The Falsified History of African Dispossession of Their Land and Country in Azania; Why the Soviet Union is an Imperialist Country; Aspects of Social Imperialism in Africa; Who are the Katangese Gendarmes; Labour Laws in Angola; more
New Boundaries No. 3 New Boundaries No. 3
Publisher: New BoundariesVolume Number: No. 3 JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
The Afro-American Nation: A Case for the Liberation of the Black Belt I: TEN YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRICA 1; II AFRO-AMERICANS: THE "THIRD WORLD" AT HOME 5; III MYTH OF BLACK PROGRESS 14; IV THE HOMELAND 27; V ALMANAC ENTRY 32; VI A HISTORY OF AFRO-AMERICA 34; VII MARXISM AND BLACK LIBERATION 67; VIII SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION 82