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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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LIBERTAD LIBERTAD
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1998Volume Number: FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Libertad
Special Fiesta Boricual Edition; Grand Jury Attacks; Victory for the Campaign; 100 Years Later: We Marched as a Nation!; Religious Update; Excerpts from July 25th Rally; The Struggle to Win; Editorial: 1998 is Not Over Yet; Alberto Writes from Texas; Area Briefs; Thank you from the Bruderhof
Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations
Publisher: Health Committee of the Campaign to Abolish Lexington Control UnitDate: 11/15/1988Volume Number: 15-NovFormat: MonographCollection: Control Units
Presented to the American Public Health Association on November 15, 1988 by the Socialist Caucus. Contents include: The Health Affects of Control Unit Prisons; APHA Opposes Lexington High Security Unit; The Women of Lexington Prison; Victory in Lexington Lawsuit; The Marion Control Unit; United Nations Position on Puerto Rican POWs; Public Health Decimates Puerto Rico; Oye-Listen; What is Torture?; Stress and Illness Biography
From Clandestinity: Face to Face with the Grand Jury, Clandestine Struggle Mass Struggle, The Macheteros on Poland, Crossroads and Exit From Clandestinity: Face to Face with the Grand Jury, Clandestine Struggle Mass Struggle, The Macheteros on Poland, Crossroads and Exit
Authors: Raisa Namikin, Pedro Archileta, Maria Cueto, Rafael Cancel MirandaPublisher: New York Committee Against Grand Jury Repression; New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence; Rebeldia PublicationsYear: 1981Format: CompilationCollection: Grand Jury
Reproduction of writings on the Puerto Rican Liberation movement and the freedom of political prisoners and prisoners of war.
Grand Juries: Did you know? Grand Juries: Did you know?
Publisher: New MovementFormat: PamphletCollection: Grand Jury
Contains information about how the Puerto Rican independence movement is being targeted by grand juries.
Proclaim Release!: A Call to Conscience and Action for the Release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Proclaim Release!: A Call to Conscience and Action for the Release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
Publisher: Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience ProjectYear: 1997Format: MonographCollection: Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience
3rd ed.
Tribunal Statement: From Women PP's and POW in HSU Tribunal Statement: From Women PP's and POW in HSU
Authors: Susan Rosenberg, Silvia Baraldini, Alejandrina TorresDate: 10/1987Volume Number: OctoberFormat: TranscriptCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Statement given to the UN on 12/12/1988
Lolita Lebron Lolita Lebron
Collection: Puerto Rico
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary
Author: Frederico R. TovarPublisher: Plus UltraFormat: BookCollection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
Biography of Puerto Rican liberation leader Albizu Campos. The leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party for over 30 years, Campos has been called one of the most inspirational political leaders of the 20th century.
Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Interview with Lebron after her arrest for the shooting of US Congressman Alvin Bentley in 1954.