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

Jalil Muntaqim Interview Jalil Muntaqim Interview
Date: 3/14/1988Call Number: V 039Format: SVHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Jalil Muntaqim Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. Part 1 of the raw interview in prison.
Jalil Muntaqim Interview Jalil Muntaqim Interview
Date: 3/14/1988Call Number: V 040Format: SVHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Jalil Muntaqim Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. Part 2 of the raw interview in prison.
Herman Bell Interview Herman Bell Interview
Date: 3/21/1988Call Number: V 041Format: SVHSCollection: Herman Bell
Herman Bell Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil Muntaqim, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. Part 1 of the raw interview in prison.
Herman Bell Interview Herman Bell Interview
Date: 3/21/1988Call Number: V 042Format: SVHSCollection: Herman Bell
Herman Bell Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil Muntaqim, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. Part 2 of the raw interview in prison.
Herman Bell & Jalil Muntaqim Interview Herman Bell & Jalil Muntaqim Interview
Date: 3/1/1988Call Number: V 043Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Herman Bell & Jalil Muntaqim Interviewed in 1988 for the making of a video on the ‘New York 3’ and their legal case. The New York 3 includes Jalil Muntaqim, Herman Bell and Nuh Washington. EPS VHS of the raw interview in prison.
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: CD 383Format: DVDProducers: Michael AptedCollection: Leonard Peltier
Michael Apted's documentary is an investigative report on the case of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist who was convicted of killing two F.B.I. agents in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge reservation, in South Dakota. Peltier (who has been serving time for the murders since 1977) was railroaded by the F.B.I. The filmmakers concentrate on demonstrating that Leonard didn't get a fair trial. Apted guides us through this tangle of ambiguous evidence and back-and-forth legal maneuvering with patient, unobtrusive skill, and the cool rationality of his manner makes the movie's arguments seem all the more irrefutable. Narrated by Robert Redford (who is also the executive producer).