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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.
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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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: US House of RepresentativesFormat: Government DocumentCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Congressional Hearings focused on the Black Panther Community News Service. Conducted by the Committee on Internal Security, House of Representatives. I. Publication and Subscription Data II. Organization of the Black Panther Party III. The Black Panther on Violent Revolution IV. Marxism-Leninism is a Guide to Action V. Relations with Other Domestic Organizations VI. Relations with International Groups VII. What We Want What We Believe- The Panther Formal Platform and Program VIII. Activities IX. The Purge of Provacateur Agents, Kooks and Avaricious Fools X. Party Finances XI. Activities of Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Raymond Hewitt and David Hilliard.
The Article Three Briefs Establishing the Legal Case for the Existence of the Black Nation The Republic of New Afrika in North America The Article Three Briefs Establishing the Legal Case for the Existence of the Black Nation The Republic of New Afrika in North America
Authors: Imari Abubakari Obadele and Gaidi ObadeleDate: 6/25/1973Volume Number: 25-JunFormat: Legal DocumentsCollection: Republic of New Afrika
Briefs filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
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. 8-2 July-AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Republic of New Afrika
Cover Story: Republic of New Afrika Convenes 33rd People Center Council- President Dara Abubakari Calls fro Consolidation of New Afrikan Independence Movement
The Case for Unity of the Black Countries and Parishes in the Lower Mississippi Valley into a Free and Independent New State of Kush The Case for Unity of the Black Countries and Parishes in the Lower Mississippi Valley into a Free and Independent New State of Kush
Publisher: The Republic of New AfricaFormat: PamphletCollection: Republic of New Afrika
pamphlet on the creation of a new Black nation
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.
The Black Scholar Interviews: Alfred "Skip" Robinson The Black Scholar Interviews: Alfred "Skip" Robinson
Author: Robert AllenPublisher: The Black ScholarYear: 1979Volume Number: March-AprilFormat: ArticleCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Robinson is the leader of the United League of Mississippi, which organized in 15 counties of MS and parts of Alabama and Tennessee to protest racism, police brutality, black land grabs, terrorism by KKK, and to fight for adequate housing, healthy care, jobs, and schools
BLA Political Overview BLA Political Overview
Publisher: Black Liberation ArmyFormat: StatementCollection: BLA
Overview and statement of general political positions
Marxism and Black Radicalism in America: The Communist Party Experience Marxism and Black Radicalism in America: The Communist Party Experience
Author: Mark NaisonPublisher: New England Free PressYear: 1971Volume Number: May-JuneFormat: ArticleCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Reprinted article from Radical America, re: the long and continuing journey of Marxism and Black Radicalism in U.S.
The Demand for Black Labor The Demand for Black Labor
Author: Harold M. BaronPublisher: New England Free PressYear: 1971Format: MonographCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Historical Notes on the Political Economy of Racism
Message to the Grass Roots and the Ballot or the Bullet Message to the Grass Roots and the Ballot or the Bullet
Author: Malcolm XFormat: ExcerptCollection: Malcolm X
Chapters from book Malcolm X Speaks - two of the last speeches Malcolm gave before leaving NOI