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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Peking Rally Peking Rally
Date: 1/1/1966Call Number: RFW 007Format: CDProgram: Peking RallyCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Tribute to Mao Tse-tung; oppressed minorities, Vietnam, simultaneous translation.
Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie
Date: 1/21/1966Call Number: RFW 013Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 1966 Tricontinental resolution (50:00-53:30), Afro-North Americans, condemns assassination of Malcolm X, "and keep fighting for freedom". Radio Free Dixie intro; five instrumental songs; "The Soul Side of Rock in the Year of Fire" program narrated by Mabel Williams: analysis of the role of soul artists in rock and roll in including social issues and "longing, suffering, dehumanization, and aspirations of a people in bondage" in popular music. comparison with spirituals from times of slavery.; more music with singing: "together we stand, divided we fall", "keep on pushing" "children are you ready" "people get ready" "we're gonna make it" "king of the road", "i wanna go home"; (31:20) RFW commentary on comic operas on civil rights struggles as most offensive and dehumanizing, bittersweet victory of Mr. Weaver (an African-American man) being appointed to White House cabinet "while another was denied his right to take his seat as the duly elected senator of Georgia", tokenism used to lull oppressed masses to sleep, "freedom now or death"; Resolution on the Human Rights of Afro-Americans in the USA adopted by Tri-Continental Conference in Havana Cuba Jan 3-12, 1966.
RF Williams at Great hall of the People RF Williams at Great hall of the People
Date: 8/8/1966Call Number: RFW 019Format: CDCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! RFW speech at Great Hall of the People on third anniversary of Mao's statement: “Black power means that Black men want to have some control over their own lives. To have a respected voice in public affairs that affect them.” “Black power is a dissident force challenging the racist white power structure that is so heinously exterminating the people of Vietnam and threatening the world with nuclear destruction.” Also covers: Other US liberation struggles (American Indian, Puerto Rican); International Solidarity Critique of LBJ, RFK. “Black nationalism is a survival reaction to white nationalism” opposition to Vietnam War and rejecting the Black role in fighting it. US as fascist nation.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter The Crusader Monthly Newsletter
Author: Robert F. WilliamsYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 8-1 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Robert F. Williams!
China's 17 Anniversary: Afro-Americans Represented