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

Victory to ZANU Victory to ZANU
Publisher: New York Material Aid Campaign for ZANUFormat: FlyerCollection: Zimbabwe
Victory to ZANU! Support the ZANU Women's Campaign! Victory to ZANU! Support the ZANU Women's Campaign!
Publisher: New York Material Aid Campaign for ZANUFormat: FlyerCollection: Zimbabwe
Why I Joined ZANLA Women's Detachment Why I Joined ZANLA Women's Detachment
Author: Sarudzai ChurucheminzwaPublisher: Zimbabwe NewsDate: 6/1974Volume Number: JuneFormat: ArticleCollection: Zimbabwe
Reproduction of Article originally printed in Zimbabwe News.
ZANU Women's Seminar ZANU Women's Seminar
Author: Robert MugabePublisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Date: 5/21/1979Volume Number: 21-MayFormat: TranscriptCollection: Zimbabwe
"The Role and History of the Zimbabwean Women in the National Struggle: Opening Address by Comrade President R.G. Mugabe - Xai-Xai - 21/5/79"
ZANU: Sixteen Years of Struggle ZANU: Sixteen Years of Struggle
Author: Comrade President Robert Gabriel MugabePublisher: Department of Information and Publicity, ZANUDate: 8/8/1979Volume Number: 8-AugFormat: TranscriptCollection: Zimbabwe
Reproduction
Zimbabwe: Problems and Prospects of Socialist Development Zimbabwe: Problems and Prospects of Socialist Development
Author: Herbert UshewokunzeDate: 7/31/1982Volume Number: 31-JulFormat: TranscriptCollection: Zimbabwe
Reproduction.
ZANU (PF) Manifesto ZANU (PF) Manifesto
Publisher: ZANU (PF)Format: ManifestoCollection: Zimbabwe
Newspaper size manifesto containing ZANU PF thirteen fundamental rights and freedoms; ZANUs twelve beliefs; ZANUs National programmes; A brief history of ZANU and the national struggle and ZANU Party Policy.
Principles of Unity Principles of Unity
Publisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationFormat: MonographCollection: May 19th Communist Organization
What we Believe and What we Do