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 New York 3 The New York 3
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 102Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Explains the case of the New York 3, jalil Muntaqim, Nuh Washington and Herman Bell in the context of the history of the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, FBIs Cointelpro program designed to destroy the Black liberation movement. Aside from the prisoners’ voices are interviews with Safiya Bukhari, of the Jericho Amnesty Movement and a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member (as well as a former political prisoner and prisoner of war) and attorney Brian Glick, talking about Cointelpro and the FBI.
West Block (Gun Rail) Bay Side West Block (Gun Rail) Bay Side
Date: 6/2/1989Call Number: V 178Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In this video, prison guards videotape a cellblock tier in order to determine ideal prisoner surveillance.
U.S. Out of El Salvador U.S. Out of El Salvador
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 179Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of demonstrators protesting the U.S. war on El Salvador by linking arms and sporadically impeding traffic at the San Francisco Federal Building. Some are arrested by SFPD.
U.S. Out of El Salvador II U.S. Out of El Salvador II
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 180Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Demonstrators protest at the San Francisco Federal Building against the U.S. war on El Salvador. Footage contains brief barricade of Market Street.
US Out of El Salvador III US Out of El Salvador III
Date: 3/20/1989Call Number: V 186Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador in which protestors attempt to disrupt traffic into and around the San Francisco Federal Building. The SFPD is seen using batons against demonstrators and undercover officers make violent arrests.
US Out of El Salvador V US Out of El Salvador V
Date: 3/20/1989Call Number: V 190Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Virtually the same as V186, this video contains footage of a demonstration against the US war in El Salvador at the Federal Building in San Francisco in which police use batons and make violent arrests.
Abortion for Survival Abortion for Survival
Date: 7/23/1989Call Number: V 240Format: VHSProducers: Fund for Feminist MajorityCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Martin Agronsky narrates a Pro-Choice documentary produced by the Fund for Feminist Majority. The Documentary shows a first trimester abortion, outlines the history of victims of anti-abortion laws, and interviews representatives from Population Crisis Committee, The School of Public Health at Columbia University, the American Psychiatric Association, and Planned Parenthood. The tape ends with a panel discussion mediated by Agronski with Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood, Eleanor Smeal, former president of National Organization for Women, Republican Congressman, Bob Dornan of California, and Nellie Gray from March for Life.
Favonius & Tony Toon Favonius & Tony Toon
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 306Format: VHSProducers: Claude Marks - aka Greg PetersCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Favonius - A short on a Pittsburgh, PA trombone quartet. Tony Toon - a four-year old wakes up and turns on the TV. About the exposure of youth to violence on television.
Outcry LA, Favonius & Tony Toon - digital Outcry LA, Favonius & Tony Toon - digital
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 307Format: Mini DVProducers: Claude Marks - aka Greg PetersCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A special about the April 1992 Los Angeles rebellion in the wake of the Rodney King verdict and the exoneration of the cops. opening 10 minutes only Favonius - A short on a Pittsburgh, PA trombone quartet. Tony Toon - a four-year old wakes up and turns on the TV. About the exposure of youth to violence on television.
Bruce Wright on racism Bruce Wright on racism
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: V 397Format: VHSProducers: KonnectionsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Lecture by Bruce Wright, judge, scholar, poet and activist for social justice. Using his own experience as a Black man, he describes the history of US racism and the criminal justice system. Transcript available for download.