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

Third World Woman Poet - Avotcja Jiltonibro Third World Woman Poet - Avotcja Jiltonibro
Date: 7/1/1972Call Number: CAA 002Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Yolanda de FreitasCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
The poetry of the Third World Poet Avotcja Jiltonibro who is originally from Harlem, New York. Her poems include Light My Fire, Hallelujah All, Soulful Sisters, Moonlight in Memphis, Soulful to Uncle Tom & Family, Granmama Funk, Land of the Living Dead, A Little More for Malcolm X, Once Maybe Yesterday, Blind Man, and We the People of Harlem.
Sexto Sol, La Mujer Sexto Sol, La Mujer
Date: 3/29/1973Call Number: CAA 026Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
A group discussion from the Festival de Sexto Sol. A group of women, and a couple men, speaking about the importance of women expressing their voices through poetry and documenting them to use as inspiration for future female poets and writers. Same as CD 289
Poetry and Interview with Dorinda Moreno Poetry and Interview with Dorinda Moreno
Date: 3/1/1973Call Number: CAA 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Interview with and poems by Dorinda Moreno. Same as CD 372.
La Mujer La Mujer
Date: 2/17/1973Call Number: RP 058Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nina Serrano, Lillian del Sol, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Interviews and poetry about and by women. Themes include music, Puerto Rico, Lolita Lebron, child care, education, work opportunities, and abortion.
The leadership of women in La Raza Unida The leadership of women in La Raza Unida
Format: mp3Collection: Xican@
Evelina Alarcon speaks about how women have been taking more substantial leadership roles to combat sexism while simultaneously making La Raza Unida stronger. Taken from CD 826.