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

Mumia Abu Jamal message to Celebrate the Children of Resistance Mumia Abu Jamal message to Celebrate the Children of Resistance
Date: 4/29/2000Call Number: CD 043Format: CDProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia Abu Jamal’s statement to “Celebrate the Children of Resistance” Berkeley Community Theater, April 29, 2000.
Mumia Abu Jamal message to Celebrate the Children of Resistance Mumia Abu Jamal message to Celebrate the Children of Resistance
Date: 4/29/2000Call Number: CD 044Format: CDProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia Abu Jamal’s statement to “Celebrate the Children of Resistance” Berkeley Community Theater, April 29, 2000.
Sarah Jane Olson Event Sarah Jane Olson Event
Date: 7/1/2000Call Number: V 428Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A public appearance by Sara Jane Olson just prior to being sentenced to prison in which people discuss political prisoners and fighting state repression - both politically and through the courts.
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.
Buffalo Chip Buffalo Chip
Publisher: Nebraskans for JusticeYear: 2000Volume Number: SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Buffalo Chip
Contents include: Ed and Mondo Need Your Held; Cruelty Leads to Corruption; Reflections on a Culture of Danger; Brother What Are We Supposed to Do; Health Care in US Prisons;
Buffalo Chip Buffalo Chip
Publisher: Nebraskans for JusticeYear: 2000Volume Number: WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Buffalo Chip
Contents include: Nebraskans fro Justice and the Poindexter/weLanaga Case; If You Build It They Will Come; or, New Prison Facilities in Nebraska and Iowa; The WhiteClay 9-Nebraska's Last Stand?; Amnesty International and the weLanga/Poindexter Case; Notes on Back in the Day