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

The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 4-3 July 25Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Political Prisoners Within the Confines of USA Concentration Camps
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-6 August 8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald Political Prisoner 1970 San Quentin Prison Death Row. Also inside: Two articles by Kathleen Cleaver, Unfit Housing Conditions, Statement by Nguyen Minh Vy, Boston's South End, Horrible Housing Conditions Not Fit For Shelter of Human Beings.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-12 September 19Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention. Also Inside: A Family Inside Ugly America, Huey's Reply to William Patterson, North Korea/South Korea, Denmark Vesey, San Quentin Prisoners Kidnapped.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-24 December 14Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: New York
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-25 December 19Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Guerrilla War in the U.S.A.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 5-29 January 16Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: You Can Kill a Revolutionary But You Can't Kill a Revolution.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 10-24 October 27Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Mid-East War- Nixon's New Vietnam. Also Inside: Ghanian Editorial Stop This Senseless War; Bobby Seale Dedicates Institute; Detroit Tenants Action Victorious; Oakland School Strike Averted; Popeye Jackson Frame-up; Mississippi Woodcutters Strike; Rhodesian Comment on Agnew; Black Drama- Four Women Reviewed, more.