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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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Solidarity- Official Organ of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania Solidarity- Official Organ of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania
Publisher: Publicity and Information Department of the B.C.M. (A)Year: 1987Volume Number: SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Reproduction of the original. Inside: New Years Message 1987; Statement on the Death of Comrade Samora Michel; The Educational Debate- Our View; Speech Delivered by Comrade Mosibudi Mangena at the 3rd Mathaba Conference in Tripoli; A Higher Level of Struggle; What is Wrong with Black Consciousness; and BCM(A) Statement concerning Black-on-Black violence.
Solidarity- Official Organ of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania Solidarity- Official Organ of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania
Publisher: Publicity and Information Department of the B.C.M. (A)Year: 1980Volume Number: No. 4 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside: Our Urgent Tasks; We Don\'t Want No Education; Campaign Briefings; New Dawn in Zimbabwe; In Solidarity with Caribbean Struggles
SASCO First National Congress SASCO First National Congress
Publisher: Publicity and Information SASCOYear: 1985Format: PamphletCollection: South Africa
Donation pamphlet for SASCO (South African Students Committee), an organization made up of both exile and non-exile students from South Africa.
Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity
Author: Steve BikoPublisher: Selby Semela and Joel Bolnick of the Black Consciousness MovementFormat: PamphletCollection: South Africa
Contains The Quest for a True Humanity by Steve Biko and a statement on his death
The Quest for a True Humanity The Quest for a True Humanity
Publisher: Black Liberation PressDate: 1/1978Volume Number: JanuaryFormat: MonographCollection: South Africa
Contains A Tribute to Steve Biko by Sipho Buthelezi; Historical Background of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) by Sipho Buthalezi; Black Consciouness and a Quest for a True Humanity by Steve Biko; and Projection: Future State by the BPC Programme
Reflections on the Black Consciousness Movement and the South African Revolution Reflections on the Black Consciousness Movement and the South African Revolution
Authors: Selby Semela, Sam Thompson and Norman AbrahamDate: 8/1979Volume Number: AugustFormat: MonographCollection: South Africa
Contains The 1976/1977 Insurrection; The Soweto Students Representative Council; and Black Consciousness and the Black Consciousness Movement.
SASCO- What is SASCO? SASCO- What is SASCO?
Authors: Dinilesizwe T. Sobukwe, Mthozami R. Xiphu, Itumeleng Mokate, Nomvuyo Qubeka, Twiggs Xiphu, Modise MaagaPublisher: South African Students CommitteeDate: 1/25/1985Volume Number: 25-JanFormat: PamphletCollection: South Africa
Black Consciousness Reaffirmed Black Consciousness Reaffirmed
Publisher: AZAPODate: 7/1981Volume Number: JulyFormat: PamphletCollection: South Africa
Azania Shall be Free Azania Shall be Free
Publisher: Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist)Format: MonographCollection: South Africa
Contents include: Azania, the land of the black man; Apartheid- racist system to maintain colonialism; oppression breeds resistance; imperialism in Azania; Azania peoples struggle receives world wide support; more
Salute the 2nd Consultative Conference of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania! Salute the 2nd Consultative Conference of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania!
Publisher: Pan Africanist Congress of AzaniaYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: South Africa
4th in the PAC in Perspective Series. This issue on the 2nd Consultative Conference of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, held in Arusha, Tanzania, from June 27-July 2, 1978. Contains political report, speeches, other conference documents, and conference and other action pictures.