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.

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Eldridge Cleaver speaking at California Hall Eldridge Cleaver speaking at California Hall
Date: 11/21/1968Call Number: KP 033Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFACollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Eldridge Cleaver addresses California Hall on prison rehabilitation. Cleaver offers his views on the sadistic nature of prison guards and alludes to the fact that no real rehabilitation can actually happen in prison under the control of the “sadistic fiends and cruel men who control that apparatus”. Cleaver reveals his dislike for mayor Alioto, Reagan. Good sound bytes about LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) having blood on his fingers.
Kathleen & Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale and Charles Garry Kathleen & Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale and Charles Garry
Call Number: V 012Format: VHSCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Kathleen & Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale and Charles Garry raw materials from Channel 5.
Kathleen & Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale Kathleen & Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale
Call Number: V 013Format: VHSCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Kathleen & Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale from channel 5.
Eldridge Cleaver from Algiers Eldridge Cleaver from Algiers
Call Number: KP 037Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Eldridge Cleaver speaks about the "drug culture" and about Timothy Leary and Rosemary Leary.
Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers
Call Number: KP 038Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party speaking from Algiers.
Eldridge Cleaver - UC Berkeley Eldridge Cleaver - UC Berkeley
Call Number: KP 039Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Eldridge Cleaver speaks at a noon rally at UC Berkeley.
Leaving Eldridge Leaving Eldridge
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: V 369Format: DVDProducers: WGBHCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Author and Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver met with the critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. for an in-depth discussion in early 1997. Cleaver died shortly after the interview. Also archival footage, a past discussion between the two that occurred in 1975 in Paris and an interview with Kathleen Cleaver.
Eldridge Cleaver Class Hearing at UC Berkeley Eldridge Cleaver Class Hearing at UC Berkeley
Call Number: CE 345BFormat: 3 3/4 ips Side BProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Academic Senate meeting at Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley about whether to allow Black Panther, Eldridge Cleaver, to teach a course at UC Berkeley.
Soul Food/Soul Music Benefit for "Soul on Ice" Soul Food/Soul Music Benefit for "Soul on Ice"
Publisher: Eldridge Cleaver Defense FundDate: 1/24/1976Volume Number: 24-JanFormat: FlyerCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge
Eldridge Cleaver Speaks Eldridge Cleaver Speaks
Publisher: The People UnitedYear: 1975Volume Number: Number 16, AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Cleaver, Eldridge