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

The Prison Inside the Prison: Control Units, Supermax Prisons, and Devices of Torture The Prison Inside the Prison: Control Units, Supermax Prisons, and Devices of Torture
Publisher: Rachael Kamel; Bonnie Kerness, American Friends Service CommitteeYear: 2003Format: ReportCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Includes: The "Marionization" of Imprisonment; Manufacturing Madness; An evolving Institution; Political Prisoners in the United States; Inside the Labyrinth; Isolation, Torture and the International Community; Devices of Torture; Turning the Tide; AFSC Resources on Control Units and Isolation. Online PDF version available at: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/afsc/prison-inside-prison.pdf
Off the Hook Off the Hook
Publisher: Missouri Prisoners' UnionYear: 2003Volume Number: Winter Issue 5Format: PeriodicalCollection: Missouri Prison Labor Union
Contents include: Texas Prisoners Get Organized!; The Prison Industrial Complex; Support for the MPLU Agenda; From the Tomb of the Living, Yet the Dead; Do Correctional Officers Have a Duty to Society?
Our Voices Within: Healing from the Inside Out Our Voices Within: Healing from the Inside Out
Publisher: California Coalition for Women PrisonersDate: 10/12/2003Volume Number: 12-OctFormat: MonographCollection: Violence Against Women
Compilation of conference papers
Who Needs Prisons, and Who do the Prisons Need? (Interview with Veronza Bowers Jr.) Who Needs Prisons, and Who do the Prisons Need? (Interview with Veronza Bowers Jr.)
Author: Eda LevensonPublisher: The New SettlerYear: 2003Volume Number: Mid-May/June Issue 136Format: TranscriptCollection: Veronza Bowers Jr.
Written transcript of phone interview conducted by Eda Levenson, recorded on September 11, 2002. Broadcast on KZYX/Z in Philo, CA on 12/29/2002.
Message of Condolences on the Transition of Our Revolutionary Sista, Comrade and Friend Safiya Bukhari Message of Condolences on the Transition of Our Revolutionary Sista, Comrade and Friend Safiya Bukhari
Author: Assata ShakurDate: 8/29/2003Volume Number: 29-AugFormat: StatementCollection: Assata Shakur
statement of condolence from Assata
Assata Shakur- The Interview Assata Shakur- The Interview
Publisher: Pan-African News WireDate: 5/2/2003Volume Number: 2-MayFormat: TranscriptCollection: Assata Shakur
Reproduction of Interview from 2003.
Anarchist Black Cross Network Anarchist Black Cross Network
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2003Volume Number: Summer No. 2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Joint Publication between Break The Chains and Anarchist Black Cross
Radical Prisoners' Correspondence Project: A Listing of Socially Conscious Prisoners Seeking Correspondence Radical Prisoners' Correspondence Project: A Listing of Socially Conscious Prisoners Seeking Correspondence
Publisher: APLAN Anarchist Prisoners' Legal Aid Network; Break the Chains CollectiveYear: 2003Format: MonographCollection: Aplan Anarchist
A Manifesto for Break the Chains Conference A Manifesto for Break the Chains Conference
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2003Format: MonographCollection: Break the Chains
1 copy in newspaper format, 2 copy as codex
Break the Chains Conference Manual Break the Chains Conference Manual
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2003Format: MonographCollection: Break the Chains