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

Prison Action News Prison Action News
Publisher: Anarchist Black CrossYear: 2014Volume Number: Vol. 7-1 FebruaryFormat: PamphletCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Table of Contents: New Prison Groups and Programs; Prison Group Updates; The Almighty Pen and Paper: Grievances and Legal Work; Direct Action/ Non-Compliance; Solidarity: Working Across the Bars; Commentary and Calls to Action
The Abolitionist The Abolitionist
Publisher: Critical ResistanceYear: 2014Call Number: Volume Number: Issue 22, SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Abolitionist
Women and Gender Liberation Issue: Women in Prison, Criminalizing Resistance, Reclaiming Our Lineage, The Means of Reproduction: An interview with Silvia Federici, Resisting Across the Walls, An Interview With Indigenous Feminist Audrey Huntley, Prison as a Border, Any Woman's Blues.
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2014Call Number: Volume Number: Number 44, FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons
Agreement to End Hostilities, Keeping Non-Violent Women in CA Prisons, Stark Facts of Global Greed, Censorship Regulations to Squash Prisoner Political Speech, Families and Advocates Call for Investigation of Women Prisoners' Deaths, Corcoran and Pelican Bay Report, End Solitary Confinement, New Regulations Use Highly Invasive Searches on CA Prisoners
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2014Call Number: Volume Number: Number 43, SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons
The Lumpen Has Stood Up, Corcoran Report, Razor Wire Plantations: Amerika's Ongoing Addiction to Slavery, Cruelty and Genocide, America's Complicity In The Prison Rape Crisis, From Unity to Collective Liberation, The Ongoing Effort to Silence Prisoners.
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2014Call Number: Volume Number: Number 42, SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons
Pelican Bay Earthquake, Pelican Bay Report, Alarming Number of Deaths in U.S. Jails, Solitary Confinement CDCR Gets Slammed at Legislative Hearings, Hearing on Solitary Confinement in California Prisons Advocates Challenge "Reforms".