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: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-8 March 20Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: To Eldridge Cleaver and his Conspirators From the San Quentin Branch of the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-9 March 27Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The World Is Yours, As Well As Ours, But in the Last Analysis, It Is Yours. You, Young People, Full of Vigor and Vitality, are in the Bloom of Life, like the Sun at Eight or Nine in the Morning. Our Hope is Placed on You.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-11 April 10Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Black Genocide- Sickle Cell Anemia
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-12 April 17Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party and the Defection of the Black Panther Party from the Black Community
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-16 May 15Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Role of the Church and the Survival Programs by Father Earl A. Neal, St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, Oakland California
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 7-5 September 25Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Lynching for Black G.I.'s Only- Billy Dean Smith Political Prisoner of the US Military
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 7-6 October 9Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: State of California Executes Joyce Annette Henderson- Welfare Recipient Victim of Inability to Pay for Proper Medical Care
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 7-9 October 23Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Uniting Against a Common Enemy (Huey P. Newton, servant of the People, with Samora Moises Machel, President of Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO))
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 7-16 December 11Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Cash-In on Your Family- Rockefeller Welfare Proposal Cuts Back on Survival