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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.
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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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Jose Lopez Jose Lopez
Date: 4/12/1986Call Number: LA 053Format: Cass A & BProgram: Public SpeakerCollection: Puerto Rico
Jose Lopez, of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) of Puerto Rico, grand jury resister, co-founder of Pedro Albizu Campus High School, brother of Oscar Lopez Rivera, talks about counterinsurgency, Prisons and Puerto Rico, US imperialism at home and abroad. Talks about 1978 secret conference on "terrorists" in PR, about Angel's (last name?) "suicide" in prison, the Federal Raids on homes in PR, Macheteros and the FALN, etc. Cuts off after he finishes.
Heyman's Brown Shirts Rampage Heyman's Brown Shirts Rampage
Publisher: Spartacus Youth LeagueDate: 4/3/1986Volume Number: 3-AprFormat: MonographCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
"Cops Off Campus! Drop All Charges! Defend Student Protest!"; rescind the suspension of Guillermo Bermudez
Against Contra Aid Against Contra Aid
Date: 3/14/1986Call Number: CAA 010Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiiiano Echeverria, Nina SerranoCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
A radio broadcast of poetry against Contra aid to Nicaragua. Intro and outro louder than rest of tape. A poetry reading by Roberto Vargas, Vida Luz Meneses, Victor Hernandez Cruz, David Henderson, & Janice Mirikitani. Translations read by Nina Serrano. MC, Alejandro Murguia Same as CD 394
Against Contra Aid Against Contra Aid
Date: 3/14/1986Call Number: CD 394Format: CDProducers: Emiiiano Echeverria, Nina SerranoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A radio broadcast of poetry against Contra aid to Nicaragua. Intro and outro louder than rest of tape. A poetry reading by Roberto Vargas, Vida Luz Meneses, Victor Hernandez Cruz, David Henderson, & Janice Mirikitani. Translations read by Nina Serrano. MC, Alejandro Murguia Same as CAA 010
Born on Sunday Born on Sunday
Author: David GilbertDate: 12/31/1986Volume Number: 31-DecFormat: StatementCollection: Kuwasi Balagoon
Kuwasi Balagoon dead, service set Dec. 21 Kuwasi Balagoon dead, service set Dec. 21
Publisher: N.Y. Amsterdam NewsDate: 12/20/1986Volume Number: 20-DecFormat: ArticleCollection: Kuwasi Balagoon
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 1 of 10 Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 1 of 10
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 245Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Exteriors in the yard & outside the Adjustment Center where George Jackson was murdered. Camera originals.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 2 of 10 Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 2 of 10
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 246Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Exteriors in the yard & outside the Adjustment Center where George Jackson was murdered. Camera originals.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 3 of 10 Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 3 of 10
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 247Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Why Geronimo was put in the hole, COINTELPRO & George Jackson, exterior shots. Camera originals.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 4 of 10 Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt - 4 of 10
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 248Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Includes comments on his framing, government trying to neutralize the Panthers, Fred Hampton, COINTELPRO including Marcus Garvey & attacks against the Muslims, Psyops and the Panthers. Camera originals.