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

Searafin Sequia at Longshoreman’s Hall Searafin Sequia at Longshoreman’s Hall
Date: 2/18/1972Call Number: CAA 051Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Serafin Sequia reads his own poems, live at Longshoremen’s Hall. 1-Ping Pong 2-Visitor 3-Memories of Picking in Fairfield 4- memories from the Union Hall Radio interference in the recording. Not for broadscast but poems can be heard. Same as CD 407
Elias Hruska Cortes and Roberto Vargas at UFW Benefit, Howard Hughes Elias Hruska Cortes and Roberto Vargas at UFW Benefit, Howard Hughes
Date: 2/18/1972Call Number: CAA 061Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Elias Hruska-Cortes and Roberto Vargas read thier poems. Same as CD 410
Report on the First Constitutional Convention of the United Farm Workers Report on the First Constitutional Convention of the United Farm Workers
Call Number: CAA 043Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Jose Maria Lopez on day one of the First Constitutional Convention of the United Farm Workers at the Falon Arena. Includes interviews with various delegates from the conference.