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

To Touch the Spirit - Healing music from Federal Prison To Touch the Spirit - Healing music from Federal Prison
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 546Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Flute pieces performed by political prisoner Veronza Bowers & friends. 1- To Touch the Spirit 2 - Song for Alexis 3- Healing Heart Veronza Bowers, a former Black Panther who has served over 30 years in prison despite having completed his sentence and gained the right to release by the US Parole Commission, remains locked up.
Solidarity Not Charity Solidarity Not Charity
Date: 12/1/2005Call Number: CD 548Format: DVDProducers: Common GroundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Made during the period of the Thanksgiving Road Trip by an amazing volunteer team of videomakers. It is a wonderful expression of Common Ground's overall mission as well as a document of the work achieved so far. With titles and music and footage of banging down walls as well as political analysis.
King's Candy - A New Orleans Kitchen Vision King's Candy - A New Orleans Kitchen Vision
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 618Format: CDProducers: Kitchen sistersProgram: NPR Morning editionCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Robert Hillary King, former political prisoner and one of the Angola 3 talks about making candy in prison and out.
Say it Plain Say it Plain
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 737Format: DVDProducers: Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury SmithCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Speeches by: Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey , Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, and Julian Bond.
Race is the Place Race is the Place
Date: 11/1/2005Call Number: V 669Format: DVDProducers: Ray Telles, Rick Tejada-FloresCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Funny, angry and profound. A visual and verbal riff on race in America from a wide variety of artists, poets, rappers, performance artists and stand-up comics. Combines racially charged clips from old movies with interviews and performances. These pieces dare to examine one of the most emotionally explosive issues in American life, busting stereotypes by using humor and poetry to say things traditionally left unsaid.
Attica is All of Us Attica is All of Us
Date: 9/1/2005Call Number: CD 867Format: DVDProducers: Isaac OntiverosCollection: Attica
Audio and video monatge about the Attica Rebellion of 1971.