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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.

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Fifth Communique from the Weather Underground Fifth Communique from the Weather Underground
Call Number: KP 005Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Weather Underground Organization
This is the fifth public communication from the Weathermen since going underground. They call for a youth culture of total resistance, and immediate national action if Nixon bombs N. Vietnam, invades Cuba or intervenes in the Middle East. The Fall Offensive was to be a week of youth fighting pigs around the country. Same as CD 397
George Jackson interview George Jackson interview
Call Number: PM 064Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Grenada TVProgram: raw San QuentinCollection: George Jackson
very short, Jackson talks about Lenin and “State and Revolution”, his cell, and JFK (John F. Kennedy) . Raw, unedited footage.
“Carry it On” “Carry it On”
Call Number: PM 084AFormat: Cass ACollection: Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur reads her poem, the chorus is “Carry it On”, probably the title. The poem carries the listener through a history of black international resistance.
Assata Shakur Report from Cuba Assata Shakur Report from Cuba
Call Number: PM 085AFormat: Cass AProducers: BETProgram: BET NewsCollection: Assata Shakur
Black Entertainment Television (BET) feature on Assata. Contains good actuality of Assata speaking on her court case, her representation in the media and the need to contextualize her case in the 60’s and the universal black experience. Tape cuts off about 5 minutes into the program.
Olivia Records Olivia Records
Call Number: PM 085BFormat: Cass BCollection: Gender and Sexuality
An interview with two women, Chris Williamson and Judy Delugacz from Olivia Records. Olivia Records was a collective founded in 1973 to record and market women's music.
Stop Government Repression Stop Government Repression
Publisher: Washington Area Committee for Prisoners' RightsFormat: FlyerCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Flyer about the campiagn to remove the bulletproof wall and surveillance cameras from the trail of the 'Resistance Conspiracy Case".
Central America Activists: Support the Resistance Conspiracy Case Central America Activists: Support the Resistance Conspiracy Case
Publisher: Washington Area Committee for Prisoners' RightsFormat: PamphletCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Pamphlet giving background information on the Resistance Conspiracy Case and its connections to Central American resistance movements.
Frente Sandinista Frente Sandinista
Call Number: JG/ 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
FSLN (Frente Sandinista Liberacion Nacional) speaker about revolutionary work after electoral defeat.
Marion Prison Marion Prison
Call Number: JG/ 005Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
"Prison within a Prison" Marion Penitentiary designed to replace Alcatraz
SDS Educational Packet: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance SDS Educational Packet: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
James Forman: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance