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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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Phone Conversation with Ray Balberan of Mission Mediarts Phone Conversation with Ray Balberan of Mission Mediarts
Date: 7/8/1972Call Number: RP 025Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Raul Torres, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Raul Torres interviews ray Balberan of Mission Mediarts about their ongoing struggle against KQED TV. Mission Mediarts produced the series “Mission & 24th Sts. (1971 - 1973), as a grass roots Mission community produced program.
Black Liberation Army - Fact or Fantasy Black Liberation Army - Fact or Fantasy
Date: 1/1/1974Call Number: PM 165Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Ron Magee, Rest of the News, Claude Marks, Bruce Soloway, Mark SchwartzProgram: Rest of the NewsCollection: BLA
Interviews and discussion concerning the Black Liberation Army and it’s alleged members. The question is raised as to the actual existence of the group which some claim to be a fabrication of the media and police to justify increased repression of Black revolutionaries. Various criminal trials of black activists are looked at to reveal how the local Police, FBI, News Media, and U.S. Justice System have worked together to pursue a repressive course to combat what they see as a threat to the very structure of American Society. Interviews detail use of police violence and torture to intimidate and demoralize the black radical movement. The cases of the “New York Five”, Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur), and Fred Hilton are described, along with the killing of Fred Hampton and the imprisonment of Muhammad Arif and Victor Cumerbash. Black Liberation Army prisoners (Herman Bell and Gabriel Torres) are interviewed extensively. Family members speak to the violence and repression of the police at a press conference. The murder by police of Twyman Myers is extensively addressed.
Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity. Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity.
Call Number: KP 069Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black Women discussing many issues that face them including white liberals and fear, and the media and its outlets.
Redstocking/ feminist interview Redstocking/ feminist interview
Call Number: KP 068Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: General materials
Unidentified women discussing the Women’s Liberation Movement and the disappointment in feminist magazines like Ms. They also express frustration for Gertrude Stein and praise for Simone De Beauvoir. Recording starts in the middle, is choppy and ends abruptly.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/17/1976Call Number: NI 097Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Angola update, memorial for Andy Truskier, report on strikes in Spain, a San Quentin 6 update, Robert Williams acquitted in North Carolina, and the Hard Times Conference in Chicago.
Emiliano Echeverria banned from KPFA Emiliano Echeverria banned from KPFA
Date: 7/29/1973Call Number: KP 334Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Mark SchwartzCollection: General materials
Report for KPFA News by Mark Schwartz on the management of KPFA banning Emiliano "Jeff" Echeverria from the station by station manager Roger Pritchard, as part of the struggle for independent Third World programming.
Two Plugs for Events Two Plugs for Events
Date: 10/25/1970Call Number: KP 342Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksCollection: General materials
Two plugs for two events. First 10/25/1970 for Tim Leary/Bobby Seale Birthday Party in Golden Gate Park, includes voice of Bernardine Dohrn. Second 12/20/1970 on event marking 10th anniversary of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
Ella Winter Interview Ella Winter Interview
Date: 2/15/1964Call Number: KP 349Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: General materials
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Ella Winter, journalist for 40 years who had just written her autobiography. Alleged to be high level Communist/Hollywood 10, etc. Ella Winter (1898-1980) whose full name was Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart, was an economist by training and journalist by profession. She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart.
They Know We're There: Pacifica Comes to Mississippi They Know We're There: Pacifica Comes to Mississippi
Date: 8/17/1964Call Number: KP 391Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Voices from the South
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews reporter Chris Koch who has just returned from 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi on what he witnessed there and the impact on the South of the civil rights movement. (Koch went on to become very prominent in public radio circles).
Interview with Paul Krassner Interview with Paul Krassner
Date: 4/29/1969Call Number: KP 392Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonProgram: Open HourCollection: General materials
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, a satirical progressive newspaper that often "pushed envelope" relating to obscenity and humorous attacks on the Establishment.