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

Acto Cultural Con Los Reconocidos Grupos Culturales Acto Cultural Con Los Reconocidos Grupos Culturales
Publisher: Comite Nacional Pro-Libertad Prisoners de Guerra PuertorriquenosDate: 4/2/1983Volume Number: 2-AprFormat: ProgramCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Program in Spanish.
Death to the Klan! Death to the Klan!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Death to the Klan! Death to the Klan!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Death to the Klan! Death to the Klan!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
The Legacy of Malcolm X and the Struggle to Defeat the Ku Klux Klan The Legacy of Malcolm X and the Struggle to Defeat the Ku Klux Klan
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1983Format: PamphletCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
black and white printed pamphlet
Capsule Summary of the Marion Lockdown Capsule Summary of the Marion Lockdown
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1983Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Includes timeline and description of conditions.
A Public Report About Violent Mass Assault Against Prisoners and Continuing Illegal Punishment & Torture of the Prison Population at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois A Public Report About Violent Mass Assault Against Prisoners and Continuing Illegal Punishment & Torture of the Prison Population at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois
Authors: Dennis Cunningham, Jan SuslerPublisher: Marion Prisoners' Rights ProjectYear: 1983Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Details events and conditions of the initial Marion Lockdown.
Already the Hour: History and Analysis of the Guerilla Movements in Mexico: 1965-1978 Already the Hour: History and Analysis of the Guerilla Movements in Mexico: 1965-1978
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican RevolutionsDate: 10/2/1983Volume Number: 2-OctFormat: MonographCollection: New Movement
New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican Revolutions Newsletter New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican Revolutions Newsletter
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican RevolutionsYear: 1983Volume Number: No. 12 December-JanuaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement
New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican Revolutions Newsletter New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican Revolutions Newsletter
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican RevolutionsYear: 1983Volume Number: No. 13 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement