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

Remember Fred Hampton Mark Clark Remember Fred Hampton Mark Clark
Publisher: December 4th CommitteeFormat: PamphletCollection: Fred Hampton
Organizational rights: Tips on Surveillance and Security Organizational rights: Tips on Surveillance and Security
Publisher: Minnesota Coalition to Prevent Repressive Federal LegislationFormat: MonographCollection: Grand Jury
Factsheet on counteracting government surveillance.
Common Sense Security: Tip Sheet for Staff Organizers Common Sense Security: Tip Sheet for Staff Organizers
Author: Sheila O'DonnelPublisher: Political Repression Project of the Center for Constitutional Rights; National Lawyers Guild Civil Liberties CommitteeFormat: FlyerCollection: Grand Jury
Useful suggestions to resist repressive techniques of the state, corporations and the right wing. Also suggestions if you are visited by the FBI.
Repression in the Land of the Free Repression in the Land of the Free
Publisher: International Network Against New State RepressionFormat: MonographCollection: Grand Jury
Information to expose and resist the ever-growing attacks by the US government against progressive and revolutionary movements.
WOMEN: THE WAR IS AT HOME WOMEN: THE WAR IS AT HOME
Format: FlyerCollection: Violence Against Women
Flyer containing facts to illustrate how deadly US society can be for women.
An Open Letter to the People and all Combat Units of the "New World Liberation Front (NWLF)" An Open Letter to the People and all Combat Units of the "New World Liberation Front (NWLF)"
Publisher: Comat Unit Four of the Black Liberation ArmyFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This letter from Combat Unit Four of the Black Liberation Army addresses the combat units of the New World Liberation Front. It calls for all combat units to unite and meet violent governmental opposition with the use of arms.
Free the SLA Free the SLA
Author: SLAFormat: StatementCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This statement written from the "underground" critiques the current revolutionary groups and provides directions for how the Left should continue. Its idea to unite the masses includes building a non-racist movement, incorporating the ideology of feminism into all theory and practice, and creating organizations capable of surviving repression from oppositional forces.
Open Letter to Mrs. Jaqueline Foster Open Letter to Mrs. Jaqueline Foster
Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This letter is written to Jacqueline Foster, wife of the assasinated Marcus Foster. It gives various reasons for his assasination.
Popeye Jackson Assasinated Popeye Jackson Assasinated
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveFormat: FlyerCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This flyer announces the assasination of both Popeye Jackson and Sally Voye.
Our Guerrilla Forces: SLA Flyer Our Guerrilla Forces: SLA Flyer
Format: FlyerCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
A flyer with a poem on the back calling for union of all guerrilla forces. Also, the poem grieves for the loss of the six members of the SLA slain in Los Angeles.