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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.
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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.
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Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1980Volume Number: Vol. 4-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Black Nation's Struggle for Land and Independence p. 1 - 'Law and Order' Blueprint for Fascism p. 2 - Assata is Free! BLA Communique p. 12 - Statement from Assata Shakur p. 13 - Puerto Rico: Protect and Defend the Armed Clandestine Movement: "A Nuestro Pueblo" from El Nuevo Dia p. 16 - Statement, Liga Socialista Puertorriquena p. 17 - Statement, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional p. 18 - Vieques: No Turning Back p. 19 - Free Leonard Peltier: Statements from Leonard Peltier published by Leonard Peltier Defense Committee p. 23 - Free the RNA 11: Free the Land! "RNA Freedom Fighters: A Continuing Episode of Human Rights Violations in Amerika" in New Afrikan (Republic of New Afrika) p. 26 - Denial of Self-Determination: A New Afrikan View in New Afrikan (Republic of New Afrika) p. 31 - Free the Pontiac Brothers! "The People are the Best Judges!" from the FUSE, pub. by New Afrikan Prisoners Organization p. 34 - Revolutionary Struggle in Guyana (Soulbook) p. 38 - Coalition for a Free Guyana p. 42 - Response to the African People's Socialist Party (PFOC Statement) p. 44
Resolutions of the 8th Congress of the National Unions of Eritrean Workers & Students in N. America and the 6th Congress of the National Union of Eritrean Women in N. America Resolutions of the 8th Congress of the National Unions of Eritrean Workers & Students in N. America and the 6th Congress of the National Union of Eritrean Women in N. America
Publisher: Coordinating Committee of EPLF Mass OrganizationsDate: 8/15/1984Volume Number: 15-AugFormat: StatementCollection: Eritrea
Stop the Torture and Isolation of Freedom Fighters! Stop the Torture and Isolation of Freedom Fighters!
Publisher: Coalition to Defend the October 20th Freedom FightersFormat: PamphletCollection: Coalition to Defend October 20th Freedom Fighters
Pamphlet calls for support and provides education around the New Afrikan freedom fighters captured after the Brinks robbery.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol. 3-13 July 19Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 4-3 July 25Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Political Prisoners Within the Confines of USA Concentration Camps
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 4-24 May 19Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Heirs of Malcolm Have Picked Up the Gun and Now Stand Millions Strong Facing the Racist Pig Oppressor. Also Inside: Malcolm X Talks to Young People, Richard the Pig Hearted Nixon by Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-6 August 8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald Political Prisoner 1970 San Quentin Prison Death Row. Also inside: Two articles by Kathleen Cleaver, Unfit Housing Conditions, Statement by Nguyen Minh Vy, Boston's South End, Horrible Housing Conditions Not Fit For Shelter of Human Beings.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 5-28 January 9Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: "In the spirit of revolutionary solidarity the Black Panther Party hereby offers to the National Liberation Frint and Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam an undetermined number of troops to assist you in your fight against American imperialism."
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-1 January 30Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: It Will be the People and Only the People who will Wrest Control of the Lives of Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins Out of the Hands of the Fascist American Administrators.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-5 February 27Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The San Quentin Branch of the Black Panther Party Opens!