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

South Africa and Namibia Must Be Free South Africa and Namibia Must Be Free
Format: FlyerCollection: South Africa
Flyer containing information about a rally on December 17th at the South African Mission to the UN
Victory to African Liberation World-wide Free the Anti-Springbok-5 Demonstrate! Victory to African Liberation World-wide Free the Anti-Springbok-5 Demonstrate!
Publisher: The Anti-Springbok-5 Defense CommitteeFormat: FlyerCollection: South Africa
Flyer containing information about the case and efforts to free the Springbok 5.
Free AZANIA! African Land for African People! Free the Anti-Springbok-5! Free AZANIA! African Land for African People! Free the Anti-Springbok-5!
Publisher: The Anti-Springbok-5 Defense CommitteeFormat: FlyerCollection: South Africa
Information flyer about the Anti-Springbok 5 Case
Constructive Engagement: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat African Liberation and Build Neo-colonialism Constructive Engagement: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat African Liberation and Build Neo-colonialism
Publisher: Revolution in Africa Action CommitteeFormat: MonographCollection: South Africa
A critical analysis of the current US policy toward Africa and an argument for building anti-imperialist solidarity with African liberation.
Azanian Women Freedom Fighters showing Six Days in Soweto Azanian Women Freedom Fighters showing Six Days in Soweto
Publisher: Womens Committee Against GenocideFormat: FlyerCollection: South Africa
Victory to the Struggle of the Azanian People for Liberation Victory to the Struggle of the Azanian People for Liberation
Publisher: Revolutionary Communist Youth BrigadeFormat: FlyerCollection: South Africa
Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist
Publisher: Art Against ApartheidFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Asking people to picket the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and Vogue Theater in San Francisco against film The Gods Must Be Crazy
Shut Down South African Airways Shut Down South African Airways
Format: EphemeraCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Card calling for demonstrations against South African Airways in San Francisco on second Wednesday of each month
Embargo South Africa Not Nicaragua! Embargo South Africa Not Nicaragua!
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeFormat: StatementCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Statement re: Reagan imposing trade embargo against Nicaragua, yet saying sanctions against South Africa won't work
Labor Movement Takes on Apartheid South Africa Labor Movement Takes on Apartheid South Africa
Publisher: Bay Area Free South Africa MovementFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Urging people to wear a red ribbon, which means Stop Apartheid Now!