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

Identify bombing Suspect Identify bombing Suspect
Authors: Fred Kerber and Stuart MarquesPublisher: Daily NewsYear: 1983Format: ArticleCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Article on the investigation of William Morales, Alfredo Mendez and FALN bombings in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn
Let your Motto be Let your Motto be
Publisher: Resistance Task ForceYear: 1983Volume Number: No 1Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Interview with Hugo Pinell Interview with Hugo Pinell
Date: 11/1/1983Call Number: V 696Format: VHSProgram: Ch 13Collection: Pelican Bay
Hugo Pinell discusses his case and being locked up in Pelican Bay.
Interview with Hugo Pinell Interview with Hugo Pinell
Date: 11/1/1983Call Number: V 697Format: Mini DVProgram: Ch 13Collection: Pelican Bay
Hugo Pinell discusses his case and being locked up in Pelican Bay. Maximum Security - a prison program at New College 11/1983. Part 2.
Grand Jury Repression and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement Grand Jury Repression and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement
Date: 4/5/1983Call Number: KP 525Format: Cass A & BProgram: WBAICollection: Puerto Rico
Two lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild and their activist clients join radio host to discuss issues in Puerto Rico and especially the efforts of the F.B.I. to stop the Puerto Rican independence movement. Guests, Elizabeth Finkel and Bob Bloom are lawyers whose clients are activists and often subject to grand juries. Julio Rosado, another guest, was a member of Comite Unitario Contra la Represion y Para la Defensa de los Presos Politicos (CUCRE) and former political prisoner incarcerated for civil contempt. They discussed prison conditions and independentista Carlos Noya, member of Movimiento Liberacion Nacional (MLN) joins the general conversation about economic, health, environmental, and political problems in Puerto Rico caused by the U.S.
Acto Cultural Con Los Reconocidos Grupos Culturales Acto Cultural Con Los Reconocidos Grupos Culturales
Publisher: Comite Nacional Pro-Libertad Prisoners de Guerra PuertorriquenosDate: 4/2/1983Volume Number: 2-AprFormat: ProgramCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Program in Spanish.
Death to the Klan! Death to the Klan!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Death to the Klan! Death to the Klan!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Death to the Klan! Death to the Klan!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
The Legacy of Malcolm X and the Struggle to Defeat the Ku Klux Klan The Legacy of Malcolm X and the Struggle to Defeat the Ku Klux Klan
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PamphletCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
black and white printed pamphlet