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 Outlaw The Outlaw
Publisher: Prisoners UnionYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol 2-1 January-FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Story: History of the Prisoners Union
The Outlaw The Outlaw
Publisher: Prisoners UnionYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 2-2 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Nationwide Unions Coming Together, Prison Law Collective, Behavior Modification, Senator Petris on Psycho-Surgery, Medical Malpractice: Know Your Rights, We are not
The Outlaw The Outlaw
Publisher: Prisoners UnionYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 2-4 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Three Years Later... A Promise Kept: Oklahoma, Files on Children, Swedish Prisons, Union Calendar 1974, Behavior Modification: Marion Mind Control, Prisoners in Research, more.
The Highest Example of Heroism The Highest Example of Heroism
Authors: Beatriz Allende Bussi and Fidel CastroPublisher: Cuban Book InstituteDate: 10/13/1973Volume Number: 13-OctFormat: MonographCollection: Chile
Speeches by Beatriz Allende (daughter of Salvador Allende) and Fidel Castro at the Rally held to mark the thirteenth anniversary of the Committes for the Defense of the Revolution on September of 1973.
Negroes with Guns Negroes with Guns
Author: Robert F. WilliamsPublisher: Third World PressYear: 1973Format: BookCollection: Robert F. Williams!
The "Black Army" Leader is Indicted The "Black Army" Leader is Indicted
Publisher: San Francisco ChronicleDate: 8/24/1973Volume Number: 24-AugFormat: ArticleCollection: Assata Shakur
Original News article
The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 3/10/1973Volume Number: 10-MarFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Articles From the 1970s
Imagen de Pedro Albizu Campos Imagen de Pedro Albizu Campos
Publisher: Instituto de Cultura PuertorriqueYear: 1973Format: BookCollection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
Short articles, poetry and photographs about Albizu Campos.
Break de Chains Break de Chains
Publisher: National Committee for the Defense of Joanne Chesimard &n Clark SquireYear: 1973Format: MonographCollection: Assata Shakur
communiques, writings, poems and messages of support and solidarity.
Everything you always wanted to know about the Middle East (2) - Everything you always wanted to know about the Middle East (2) -
Publisher: Arab Information CenterYear: 1973Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionist Criticism