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

Cuba’s new Family Law Cuba’s new Family Law
Date: 1/1/1974Call Number: KP 169BFormat: Cass BCollection: Cuba
Lincoln Bergman on fighting machismo and sexism in Cuba and the new Cuban Family Law Commentary about the International Human Rights Tribunal on US war crimes in Vietnam and the struggle for Blacks in the US. Appeal to Black GIs encouraging them to refuse to fight in the Vietnam War. US POW statements from captivity in Vietnam.
The Outlaw The Outlaw
Publisher: Prisoners UnionYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 3-3 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Focus... Women, Arizona, Texarkana Murder, National Jailhouse Lawyers Association, Skin-Search Protest, Leavenworth Brothers, Poetry, Getting Out, Oklahoma, El Reno, To Die Behind Prison Walls, High Court Limits Prison Censorship
Sun of Our Freedom: The Independence of Guinea Bissau Sun of Our Freedom: The Independence of Guinea Bissau
Publisher: Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea (CCLAMG)Date: 1/1974Volume Number: JanuaryFormat: MonographCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Monograph about the history and independence of Guinea-Bissau.
Sun of Our Freedom: The Independence of Guinea Bissau Sun of Our Freedom: The Independence of Guinea Bissau
Publisher: Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea (CCLAMG)Date: 11/1974Volume Number: NovemberFormat: MonographCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
2nd printing. Monograph about the history and independence of Guinea-Bissau.
35% Puerto Rican Women Sterilized 35% Puerto Rican Women Sterilized
Publisher: Committee for Puerto Rican DecolonizationYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 2-5Format: ArticleCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
An article from the Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization in New York exposing the massive sterilization program carried out by the U.S. Government and the Rockefeller Foundation in response to the "population problem" in Puerto Rico that was seen as responsible for widespread unemployment.
The Politics of Rape in Vietnam The Politics of Rape in Vietnam
Author: Arlene Eisen BergmanPublisher: Peoples PressYear: 1974Format: ExcerptCollection: Vietnam
Excerpt from book Women of Vietnam by Arlene Eisen Bergman