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

Kent State: 1977 Kent State: 1977
Date: 7/10/1977Call Number: KP 163AFormat: Cass ACollection: Anti-War
Attempts by the May 4th Coalition to prevent the construction of a gymnasium at Kent State on the site of the May 4, 1970 shooting of four anti war protesters by the National Guard are discussed. The focus is on this coalition’s encampment created on the proposed construction site. Includes interviews with various activists in this camp and recordings of their eviction.
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks - Captured US Military Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks - Captured US Military
Call Number: KP 169AFormat: Cass ACollection: Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh addresses the antiwar movements of various countries in Vietnamese, Chinese, French, English US POWs speaking from captivity in Vietnam. Recorded by the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. Also on CD 390
Frente inserts/Elsa Knight Thompson interview Frente inserts/Elsa Knight Thompson interview
Date: 2/8/1972Call Number: KP 240AFormat: Cass AProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: General materials
Four inserts used by Lincoln Bergman in presentation to Front of Cultural Workers conference in San Francisco. Includes two recordings of Radio Rebelde, one of Radio Havana, and one of Voice of Vietnam. Two songs of Paul Robeson.
The Voice of Vietnam The Voice of Vietnam
Date: 1/8/1976Call Number: KP 278AFormat: Cass AProgram: Voice of VietnamCollection: Vietnam
The Voice of Vietnam exposes the corrupt and violent impact of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Vietnamization, a form of neocolonialism, and Nixon's disregard for the Paris Agreement aggravated US-Vietnamese relations. As the Vietnamese people struggled to reunify their homeland after the war, Cuba emerged as an ally in this struggle.