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 Fuse The Fuse
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationYear: 1978Volume Number: No. 8 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
Formerly Stateville Raps
The Burning Spear The Burning Spear
Publisher: African People\'s Socialist PartyYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 5-11 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: African People's Socialist Party (APSP)
The Burning Spear The Burning Spear
Publisher: African People\'s Socialist PartyYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 5-5 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: African People's Socialist Party (APSP)
Black Star Black Star
Publisher: Afrikan People's PartyYear: 1978Format: PeriodicalCollection: Afrikan Peoples Party
Special Edition: APP Reports from Third Party Congress: Secretary General's Report to the Party Congress; Mass demonstration: March for Human Rights from US to South Africa!; Black Workers Fight Bureaucrats; APP Political Perspective; Malcolm X Program at Audubon!; Editorial; Afrikan People's Party Third National Congress Adopted Resolutions;
South Africa and Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt South Africa and Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt
Date: 6/17/1978Call Number: FI 197Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara Lubinski, Mark SchwartzProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Second anniversary of Soweto marked in South Africa. Mark Schwartz interviews Geronimo in-depth in prison.
Rebeldia Rebeldia
Publisher: Movimiento de Liberacion NacionalYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 2-1 January/FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional
Puerto Rican workers resistance; La Raza against the KKK; A message to the people: El Filo de Mechete; Counter perspective: Obreros en lucha; We accuse; Statement from the workers movement; 2 copies English; 1 copy Spanish
El Lider De La Desesperacion El Lider De La Desesperacion
Author: Juan Antonio CorretjerPublisher: Liga Socialista PuertorriqueYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
About Albizu Campos and the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico.
United States Government Conspiracy Against Malcolm X and the Black Community United States Government Conspiracy Against Malcolm X and the Black Community
Publisher: National Task Force Cointelpro Litigation and ResearchDate: 2/21/1978Volume Number: 21-FebFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Free the L.A. Five! Free the L.A. Five!
Publisher: PFOCYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: LA Five
Contents include: Who are the LA 5?; The US State and the LA 5- the Campaign Against Terrorism; and Why we support the LA 5.
Transnational Links Between Arab Community in the US and Arab World Transnational Links Between Arab Community in the US and Arab World
Author: Ayad Al-QazzazPublisher: Cal Central PressYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Palestine