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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.
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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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SDS Regional Newsletter #7 SDS Regional Newsletter #7
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 2/22/1966Volume Number: 22-FebFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
South Africa: Suggestions; Tax Refusal Program; Delano Grape Strike; Teenagers and Social Reform; and other regional news.
Trapped in a System Trapped in a System
Author: Carl OglesbyPublisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 11/27/1965Volume Number: 27-NovFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Monograph in protest to the Vietnam War.
The Black Voice The Black Voice
Publisher: The Black VoiceVolume Number: Vol. 5-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race
Author: Theodore William AllenPublisher: New England Free PressYear: 1976Format: MonographCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
A treatment of racial slavery as a response to class struggle and of the consequences for the entire working class. This article is a slightly expanded form of a talk originally presented February 23, 1974 at the New Haven meeting of the Union of Radical Political Economists. It appeared in Radical America, May-June, 1975, Volume 9, Number 3.
Black Labor/Radical America Black Labor/Radical America
Year: 1971Volume Number: March-AprilFormat: MonographCollection: League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Contains an article on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as well as excerpts from the DRUM newsletter.
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Study The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Study
Author: Akbar Muhammad AhmadYear: 1979Format: ArticleCollection: League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Historical study of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. reprinted from original article.
Off the Hook Off the Hook
Publisher: Missouri Prisoners' UnionYear: 2007Volume Number: January Issue 13Format: PeriodicalCollection: Missouri Prison Labor Union
Contents include: Editorials; Letters; and News
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?
Off the Hook Off the Hook
Publisher: Missouri Prisoners' UnionYear: 2006Volume Number: September Issue 12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Missouri Prison Labor Union
Contents include: Editorials; Letters; News and Interviews
Off the Hook Off the Hook
Publisher: Missouri Prisoners' UnionYear: 2004Volume Number: May/June Issue 6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Missouri Prison Labor Union
Contents include: Crossroads at the Devil's House; Duration of Placement in Ad-Seg; The Sheriff Who Issues Pink Underwear; Discrimination Against a Minority; Helen Woodson: the truth bears; Prisoners and the Right to Vote; Invisible Health Crisis; Women on the Row; Alls Well in Iraq- Just Ask the Daed; An Anarchist Captives Thoughts; Chattel Slavery; The Truth Must be Told; Emancipation Without Emancipating