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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.
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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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By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1992Volume Number: June/July 1992Format: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
The New Afrikan People's Organization Organizes the People to Take a Stand!!!; Message from the Chairman: The New Afrikan Revolution and Malcolm X; Self-Determination: A Human Right in Jackson, Mississippi; Grassroots Convention Underway; Atlanta Sets it Off!; Tasks Ahead for Organizing in the South; Columbus, cultural, Imperialism, and the New Afrikan Nation; The New Afrikan Uprising; New Afrikan Women Speak; The Rebellion of Spring: The Chickens (Finally) Came Home to Roost; History is a Weapon!: Righting the Wrong; New Afrikan Analysis: On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: A New Afrikan Perspective; A Call to Justice Loving People Worldwide: Help Save Mumia Abu-Jamal!!!; To the Supporters of "G": A Letter from the International Campaign to Free Geronimo; Updates: Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War; From Across the Empire: News Briefs;
Some Lessons Learned Some Lessons Learned
Authors: Chokwe Lumumba, Akinyele UmojaPublisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: MonographCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Neither Freedom, Now Power are Ever for Sale; No Association with White Supremacists; Freeing the Land in Azania; The Criminalization of the Black Community; On the Role of the New Afrikan Lawyer and Legal Worker; On NAPO's Revolutionary Mission
Towards the Liberation of the Black nation: Organize for New Afrikan People's War! Towards the Liberation of the Black nation: Organize for New Afrikan People's War!
Publisher: New Afrikan Institute of Poltical EducationYear: 1982Format: MonographCollection: New Afrika
Contents: Consolidating the Most Advanced Forces in the New Afrikan Independence Movement; What is the State of Affairs in New Afrika's Struggle for Land and Independence; Development/Role of People's War in New Afrikan Independence Movement; Revolutionary Violence and the Theory of Force in the USA; Building Strategic Alliances and People's war: National Liberation Inside the US Imperialist State
Roots of the New Afrikan Independence Movement Roots of the New Afrikan Independence Movement
Author: Chokwe LumumbaPublisher: New Afrikan ProductionsFormat: MonographCollection: New Afrika
Revolution Requires Political Maturity: A response to the inaccurate and politically immature attacks on the New Afrikan Independence Movement by the African People's Socialist Party
Soulbook #13: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #13: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: SoulbookYear: 1980Format: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: On the New Afrikan Nationality; The Article Three Briefs; New Afrikan Literature; Guyanese Peoples View of the Jonestown Massacre; A Black Political Prisoners Appeal; New Afrikarts (Poetry); Portraits of a Black Revolutionary Woman- Dara Abubakari of the Republic of New Afrika; A Tribute to Walter Rodney.
The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika
Publisher: The Republic of New AfricaYear: 1979Volume Number: Vol. 7-1 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Republic of New Afrika
US in Violation of Afrikan People's Human Rights
The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika
Publisher: The Republic of New AfricaDate: 11/1979Volume Number: NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Republic of New Afrika
Cover Story: RNA Presidential Tour Major Success; Two RNA-11 Members Released, Imari Denied Parole.
The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika
Publisher: The Republic of New AfricaVolume Number: Vol. 8-1 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Republic of New Afrika
Special Human Rights Edition dedicated to Malcolm X and Assata Shakur. Cover Story: Imari Wins Parole, Karim on Work Release Program.
The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika
Publisher: The Republic of New AfricaYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 9-3 December 18Format: PeriodicalCollection: Republic of New Afrika
Black Nation Day Brings Unity To RNA. Also, New Afrika Wins Brinks Case, Fulani is Free, Inside the Brinks Story, Dark Days in Grenada, New Afrikan Political Scene, more.
SDS Educational Packet: The Struggle Against Racism in America SDS Educational Packet: The Struggle Against Racism in America
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Excerpts from Black Reconstruction by WEB DuBois