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

Two Trevors go to Washington Two Trevors go to Washington
Date: 1/1/2000Call Number: V 561Format: VHSProducers: Ben CashdenCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Protests by over 30,000 against the World Bank are seen through the eyes of two South Africans. In the Bank, finance minister Trevor Manuel, champion of South Africa's conservative economic policy and chair of the IMF/World Bank board. On the streets, Soweto activist and African Ntaional Congress member, Trevor Ngwane, joins the protesters.
The Waiting Room: An Interactive Installation by Richard Kamler The Waiting Room: An Interactive Installation by Richard Kamler
Publisher: Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, TexasYear: 2000Format: PamphletCollection: Death Penalty/Waiting Room Rick Kamler
Information pertaining to exibit
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2000Volume Number: No. 12 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- Oppression
National Coalition to Free the Angola 3 National Coalition to Free the Angola 3
Publisher: National Coalition to Free the Angola 3Date: 11/2000Volume Number: NovemberFormat: PamphletCollection: Angola 3
History of the Angola 3 case, writings by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Geronimo Pratt, Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace and Robert King Wilkerson.