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

Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis
Date: 5/26/1998Call Number: PM 324Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Prisons - Women
Rally for women in prison in San Francisco's U.N. Plaza including: medical neglect of women in prison,discriminatory drug laws, Human Rights Watch's study that found that sexual exploitation and abuse of women by guards is an institutionalized and largely ignored practice, news of Mumia Abu Jamal, and women's rights coalitions about the need for more recovery centers and other treatment facilities.
Forty-Eight Hours: Women Doing Time Forty-Eight Hours: Women Doing Time
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 574Format: VHSProgram: CBS NewsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Discusses the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, including the newborn baby policy and battered women's program. Shows a glimpse of the prisoners' everyday life. Interviews various prisoners and connects many of their crimes to drugs and domestic violence. Interview with infamous inmate Jean Harris, who murdered a well-known diet doctor/cardiologist.
Cops vs. Cops: Investigator charges drug ring run inside Trenton prison Cops vs. Cops: Investigator charges drug ring run inside Trenton prison
Author: Dave NeesePublisher: The TrentonianDate: 8/6/1989Volume Number: 6-AugFormat: ArticleCollection: Control Units
Reproduction of original article.
Inmates Kafka-esque case to be reheard Inmates Kafka-esque case to be reheard
Author: Dave NeesePublisher: The TrentonianDate: 5/13/1990Volume Number: 13-MayFormat: ArticleCollection: Control Units
reproduction of original article.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 3 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: BARC Finances, These Days, Statement from Bill and Emily Harris, Wendy Yoshimura, from Prison, Support from Martin Sostre, Network Against Psychiatric Assault: Demonstration, Communique: George Jackson Brigade, New World Liberation Front: Communique, Coalinga bombing, Poem, Front de Liberation du Quebec, Orphans of Amerika: Open Letter to NWLF, Four Trials, Psychiatric Assault, Behavior Modification = Mind Control, George Jackson Brigade Bombs Washington State Department of Corrections in Olympia