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.

Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)

This underground movement has been at the forefront of the Political Prisoners and Prisoners of war solidarity movement since the early 20th century. Initially a splinter group of the Political Red Cross, ABC continues to provide support for Anarchist and Social Revolutionary Political Prisoners through financial support and distribution of political literature.

The collection focuses on publications by ABC's Chicago chapter.

Documents

Abolishing the Borders from Below Abolishing the Borders from Below
Publisher: Anarchist Courier from Eastern EuropeYear: 2004Volume Number: September Issue 17Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Articles include: The Council of Europe; Interview with Anarchist from Bosnia and Herzegovina; Nestle Boycott in Poland: Interview and Report; The First Women Camp in Belarus; Interview with Anfema: Anarcha-Feminist Group from Croatia; Report from Radical Ecological Protest Camp in Perm-Russia; Anti-NATO in Istanbul.
Prison Action News Prison Action News
Publisher: Anarchist Black CrossYear: 2011Volume Number: Vol. 4-2 JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Table of Contents: New Prison Groups and Organizations; Updates on Continuous Resistance; The Almighty Pen and Paper: Grievances and Legal Work; Solidarity: Working Across the Bars; Direct Action/ Non-Compliance
Anarchist Black Cross Network Anarchist Black Cross Network
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2003Volume Number: Summer No. 2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Joint Publication between Break The Chains and Anarchist Black Cross
Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter
Publisher: South Chicago ABC Zine DistroYear: 2004Volume Number: Winter/SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Decolonized Decolonized
Author: Timothy TrusilloPublisher: South Chicago ABCDate: 12/2009Volume Number: DecemberFormat: PamphletCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Extended prose
Truth is Revolutionary Truth is Revolutionary
Author: Anthony RaysonPublisher: South Chicago ABC DistroDate: 4/22/2005Volume Number: 22-AprFormat: StatementCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Statement made at Beloit College Forum
No Iraqi Called Me a Nigger No Iraqi Called Me a Nigger
Author: Lorenzo Komboa ErvinFormat: StatementCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Support Chris Gatewood!
My Refusal to Remain Silent: A Press Release of the SHU My Refusal to Remain Silent: A Press Release of the SHU
Publisher: South Chicago ABCFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Statement from an Indiana SHU
One New Afrikan Nation Toward Black August Memorial One New Afrikan Nation Toward Black August Memorial
Publisher: NARN Think TankFormat: PamphletCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Information and historical fact about Black August
Information and Resources Information and Resources
Publisher: California Anarchist Prisoner SolidarityFormat: PamphletCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Pamphlet on writing letters to political prisoners