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

Eraser: The Alternative Youth Magazine Eraser: The Alternative Youth Magazine
Publisher: End Racism and Sexism Through Education ProjectYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 1Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: S.A.\'s \'Culture of Violence\'; Sexuality & You- Part 1; The Return of an Exile-short story; Social Dynamics & Sport- can there be fair play?; Building your self-image
Eraser: The Alternative Youth Magazine Eraser: The Alternative Youth Magazine
Publisher: End Racism and Sexism Through Education ProjectYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 3Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: Lifting the Lid on the Education Crisis; Sex and Music; You and Contraception- Making an Informed Choice
Azania News Azania News
Publisher: Panafricanist Congress of AzaniaYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 19-7 JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: The Impact of the PAC; Azania Youth Unity; The Medical Association of South Africa; The National Situation; Economic Sanction do Work; Children of the Revolution; From the Black Experience
Conference for a Deomcratic Future Conference for a Deomcratic Future
Date: 12/1989Volume Number: DecemberFormat: ReportCollection: South Africa
This booklet is intended to serve as a report-back to those organizations which were party to the Conference for a Democratic Future (CDF). The CDF was a historic gathering of the forces for change represented by 4600 delegates from over 2100 organizations.