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 Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Newspaper CommitteeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 1-4 For Mumia FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Stop State Murder of Mumia. Also Inside: Open Letter to Youth; BPP 25th Year; May Day Threat; Reagan/Bush economics; International News; Haitian Update; A Kinder Apartheid; Fallen Comrades; POWs/Political Prisoners; Survival Programs; Marin City CDC, more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Newspaper CommitteeYear: 1995Volume Number: Vol. 4-1 New World Order WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: New World Order. Also Inside: The New World Order=Neo-Fascism; Death Penalty- Reality Check Time; The Black Codes Revisited- True Crime in Amerikkka; John Hendrik Clarke- Black PP/POWs; South Africa at the Crossroads?; The Art of Self-Defense; more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 2/2014Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Black Panther Party 47th Anniversary Honoring Our Political Prisoners
The Black Panther Party: Its Origin and Development as Reflected in its Official Weekly Newspaper The Black Panther Community News Service The Black Panther Party: Its Origin and Development as Reflected in its Official Weekly Newspaper The Black Panther Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 10/2011Volume Number: OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Special Commemorative Issue. Cover Story: 45th Anniversary: International Solidarity
The Black Panther Party: Its Origin and Development as Reflected in its Official Weekly Newspaper The Black Panther Community News Service The Black Panther Party: Its Origin and Development as Reflected in its Official Weekly Newspaper The Black Panther Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1991Volume Number: Vol. 1-3 Fall For Jon and GeorgeFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: In Celebration of the Spirit of Afrikan Resistance
The Black Panther Party: Its Origin and Development as Reflected in its Official Weekly Newspaper The Black Panther Community News Service The Black Panther Party: Its Origin and Development as Reflected in its Official Weekly Newspaper The Black Panther Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 9-21 March 10Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Parents Protest Nixon's Child Care Cuts
A Strategy for Struggle A Strategy for Struggle
Author: Ron KarengaPublisher: The Black ScholarDate: 11/1973Volume Number: NovemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This article by Rob Karenga appears in the Black Scholar of November 1973. Karenga calls for liberation of Afroamericans by accessing "critical space" inside economic and political institutions. In his article he provides ways to meet objectives of the liberation struggle and comments on Pan-Africanism.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 5 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Letter from the Smybionese Liberation Army December/75, Our Back Pages: B.A.R.C., Letters, Nam Brothers: Ashanti, Black Liberation Army, The Weather Underground Organization film, Blurbs, Politics in Command: Weather Underground, Women's Gun Pamphlet: book review, New World Liberation Front, structure, New Worl Liberation Front, community health strategy, The Zapata Unit: B.A.R.C., An Open Letter to the People, the Zapata Unit, and New Dawn.
The Black Activist The Black Activist
Publisher: Black Left Unity NetworkYear: 2013Call Number: Volume Number: Issue 1, SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Stand Together For Justice: Forging Unity of the Black Left, Justice For Trayvon Martin, Stop The War on Black America!, Black Workers For Justice, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Manifesto of the Black Workers Congress, On Our Sister Assata, On Our Brother Trayvon