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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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Warren Christopher, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of State
Publisher: Kenneth Roth, Exec. Director Human Rights Watch; Gay MacDougall, Exec. Director, International Human Rights Law Group; Elaine R. Jones, Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.Year: 1995Format: CorrespondenceCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Letter to Secretary of State expressing interest in the U.S. forthcoming submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Includes Summary of Concerns about Race Discrimination in the I.S. Criminal Justice System. Part of 12/1995 mailing.
Topical Survey: Super-Max Facilities and Units Topical Survey: Super-Max Facilities and Units
Publisher: Summary for Corrections AdministratorsYear: 1995Format: FlyerCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Information on the facilities and development of Super-Max prisons. Part of 1/21/1995 AFSC Mailing.
Total Control in the "Free State" Total Control in the "Free State"
Publisher: Baltimore Anarchist Black CrossYear: 1995Format: ReportCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Examines Maryland prisons, conditions of control units, offer recommendations. Part of 11/1995 mailing.
Women and imprisonment in the United States: History and current reality Women and imprisonment in the United States: History and current reality
Author: Nancy KurshanPublisher: Monkeywrench PressYear: 1995Format: MonographCollection: Prisons - Women
Talk with Assata Shakur in Cuba: Somewhere in Cuba Talk with Assata Shakur in Cuba: Somewhere in Cuba
Author: Assata ShakurYear: 1995Format: TranscriptCollection: Assata Shakur
Transcript of an interview conducted in Cuba in 1995.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Newspaper CommitteeYear: 1995Volume Number: Vol. 4-1 New World Order WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: New World Order. Also Inside: The New World Order=Neo-Fascism; Death Penalty- Reality Check Time; The Black Codes Revisited- True Crime in Amerikkka; John Hendrik Clarke- Black PP/POWs; South Africa at the Crossroads?; The Art of Self-Defense; more.
When Activism is your crime When Activism is your crime
Author: Tyehimba JessPublisher: The Source MagazineDate: 10/1995Volume Number: OctoberFormat: ArticleCollection: Mutulu Shakur
Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control? Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 336Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)Collection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Mind Control or Social Control? About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as forms of social control which target revolutionary movements. Film segments about former LA gang member and Pelican Bay prisoner Sanyika Shakur. Transcript available for download.
Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control? CEML #3 Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control? CEML #3
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 345AFormat: Cass AProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US. This tape is a continuation of PM 336. Transcript available for download.
Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control? Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: CD 794Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as forms of social control which target revolutionary movements. Film segments about former LA gang member and Pelican Bay prisoner Sanyika Shakur. Transcript available for download.