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.

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Rape, Racism and the White Womens Movement: An Answer to Susan Brownmiller Rape, Racism and the White Womens Movement: An Answer to Susan Brownmiller
Author: Allison EdwardsPublisher: Sojourner Truth OrganizationFormat: MonographCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
A critique of Against Our Will and the tendency it represents. Also, a call for a new form of womens movement with a theoritical and programatic approach that will help women build a base powerful enough to begin to change society in such a way as will some day end the oppression of women, including the crime of rape.
Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: PamphletCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
A pamphlet about day to day survival programs at the Centers already established in Los Angeles, Detroit, and the newest center in Atlanta.
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationVolume Number: Vol. 6-1 April-MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: In the Year of Malcolm X and the Decade of Self Determination
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1991Volume Number: Fall/WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: And the Struggle Continues; NAPO Elections. Inside: Message from the Chairman, NAPO Newsbriefs, A Snake is a Snake (Clearance Thomas), Support Our Mandelas (Geronimo Ji Jaga), 500 Years of Native Resistance, Is the Image of Malcolm Being Pimped, New Orleans Police Murder Black Youth, more.
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 5-3 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Stories: A Call to Afrikans in America and New Afrikans to rebuild the Revolutionary Nationalist and Pan Afrikan Movement; The American Flag, a symbol of death, destruction and genocide Let the Sucker Burn!
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationVolume Number: Vol. 4-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Stories: The US Government War on the Black Nation Continues! Dr. Mutulu Shakur sentenced to 60 years, Marilyn Buck Receives 50. America on Trial No Justice No Peace; The Jackson Factor and the Rumble in Atlanta.
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 5-2 Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: From the Community to the College Campus Black Uprisings are Spreading!
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 6-2 October-NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: Whose Streets? The New Afrikan Masses Stop the Klan
Angela Davis Birthday Monograph Angela Davis Birthday Monograph
Publisher: National Alliance Against Racist and Political RepressionFormat: MonographCollection: Angela Davis
Monograph to celebrate Anegla Davis' 40th birthday. Includes well-wishes from comrades, supporters and movement organizations. Also includes a couple pieces of writing about Angela and the work of the NAARPR.
On the National Question On the National Question
Author: A. Muhammad AhmadPublisher: Institute of Black StudiesFormat: PamphletCollection: New Afrika
Pamphlet on the struggle for a scientific materialist approach to Black Liberation in the US. Discusses whether or not Black people in the US are a colonized nation and how can Black people build unity around their relationship to the means and modes of production in the United States.