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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.

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From Slavery to Freedom: A Story from Angola From Slavery to Freedom: A Story from Angola
Author: Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)Publisher: People\'s PressYear: 1976Format: MonographCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Graphic novel about the story of the transformation of the Angolan people from slavery into struggle and from struggle to freedom.
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: 1978Volume Number: No. 8 MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
This Issue Dedicated to Robert Sobukwe, Great African Patriot, Pan-Africanist and Azanian Revolutionary Leader. In this Issue: The Black Man\'s Quest; Documents from the Soweto Uprising; ANC-CP Prefers Colonial and Racist Name to Azania; The Soviet Threat in the Horn; Cuban Merenaries in Guinea; Some background to Congo-Zaire; Social Fascism in Angola; more
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: 1980Volume Number: No. 15 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: Political Mobilisation is Equally as Important as Armed Struggle; Peoples Movement in Azania in Upsurge; The Freedom Charter; Lenin: Apropos the Freedom Charter; A Brief History of Azania; The Role of Missionaries in the Conquest of South Africa; Kampuchea Atrocities Refuted at UN; Independent Zimbabwe; Brief History of Mazambiquan Revolution; Soviet Union Plunders Namibian Resources; more
Chilean Resistance Courier: Press Conference by the Secretary General of the MIR Chilean Resistance Courier: Press Conference by the Secretary General of the MIR
Publisher: MIRYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Chile
Contents includean evalution on the importance of Active solidarity for the triumph of the popular resistance, the revolutionary's response to the growing instability of the dictatorship, developments in the resistance including, comments by Lumi Videla, Miguel Enriquez, Carmen Castillo, international solidarity, construction of the Revolutionary Party, call on the common soldier
Chilean Resistance Courier: Press Conference by the Secretary General of the MIR Chilean Resistance Courier: Press Conference by the Secretary General of the MIR
Publisher: MIRYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Chile
Contents includean evalution on the importance of Active solidarity for the triumph of the popular resistance, the revolutionary's response to the growing instability of the dictatorship, developments in the resistance including, comments by Lumi Videla, Miguel Enriquez, Carmen Castillo, international solidarity, construction of the Revolutionary Party, call on the common soldier