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.

Break the Chains

Break the Chains is a non-hierarchical collective working toward building an egalitarian society free of prisons. Their focus is on prison issues, including fighting state repression, prisoner support and prison abolition.

Documents

Break the Chains Newsletter Break the Chains Newsletter
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2004; 2005Volume Number: Winter Format: PeriodicalCollection: Break the Chains
Break the Chains Newsletter Break the Chains Newsletter
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2002Volume Number: WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Break the Chains
Break the Chains Newsletter Break the Chains Newsletter
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2004Volume Number: SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Break the Chains
Break the Chains Newsletter Break the Chains Newsletter
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2004Volume Number: Winter Format: PeriodicalCollection: Break the Chains
Break the Chains Newsletter Break the Chains Newsletter
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2005Volume Number: Issue #22Format: PeriodicalCollection: Break the Chains
Break the Chains Conference Manual Break the Chains Conference Manual
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2003Format: MonographCollection: Break the Chains
A Manifesto for Break the Chains Conference A Manifesto for Break the Chains Conference
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2003Format: MonographCollection: Break the Chains
1 copy in newspaper format, 2 copy as codex
Break the Chains Newsletter Break the Chains Newsletter
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2005Volume Number: SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Break the Chains
Break the Chains Newsletter Break the Chains Newsletter
Publisher: Break The Chains CollectiveYear: 2004Volume Number: SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Break the Chains