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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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Creating Change: Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change: Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Date: 6/15/1905Call Number: JG/ 026Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
6th annual "Creating Change conference" in Durham, NC. Keynote speaker Mab Segrest, southern gay/lesbian activist, anti-Klan organizer and author of "Memoirs of a Race Traitor". Speech was a call to bring racism and inhumanity of capitalism into the discourse.
Interview with Francis Mitchell Interview with Francis Mitchell
Call Number: SS 023Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Francis Mitchell, an African American press photographer for SNCC in 1960's, and an organizer against racism in US military in 1940's.
Interview with Calu Lester Interview with Calu Lester
Date: 6/4/1995Call Number: SS 029Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Calu Lester on the history of interracialism.
Interviews with Marcy Arnold, Kimala Nelson, Carmen Griggs and Laura Campell Interviews with Marcy Arnold, Kimala Nelson, Carmen Griggs and Laura Campell
Date: 7/29/1987Call Number: SS 006Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Women Against Racism; Interviews with Marcy Arnold, Kimala Nelson, Carmen Griggs and Laura Campell.
Malcolm X Unity Rally, United Black Front Malcolm X Unity Rally, United Black Front
Call Number: KP 086Format: CassetteCollection: Malcolm X
Malcolm X gives an impassioned speech to a crowd in Harlem about the ills and abuses African Americans have endured by the "blue-eyed white devils" or "white-disease." He argues for complete separation and an independent nation, or back to Africa. Criticizes pacifist civil rights leaders like Dr. King and espouses eye-for-an-eye style of justice.
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 8/30/2001Call Number: JH 653Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Apenas 30 años? De Javier Arteaga, Nicaragua-el Café; foro mundial contra el racismo
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 9/6/2001Call Number: JH 654Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Argentina-chelis; Cumbre contra el racismo-Bush el Incomprendido, justiciero
Interview with Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown Interview with Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown
Call Number: PM 212Format: CassetteProducers: Barbara LubinskiCollection: Assata Shakur
This tape is a series of interviews between Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown. They both met each other in prison. (I believe) in This interview it is Assata that asks Bo to comment on this question: “Is there ways to prevent people (which has happened in the past alot) from getting engaged in armed struggle, by becoming very isolated?”
Have You Seen La Nueva Mujer Revolucianaria Puertorriquena? Have You Seen La Nueva Mujer Revolucianaria Puertorriquena?
Call Number: LA 057Format: CassetteProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Puerto Rico
Various Puerto Rican women reflect upon their struggle to immigrate to America as well as Puerto Rican people that still live on the island. There is considerable talk about the Puerto Rican independence movement and these women tell their stories of imprisonment as political prisoners of war in the United States. Women’s suffrage in Puerto Rico and the United States is also a topic frequently discussed.
Why was Malcolm X killed? (Part 3 of 3) Why was Malcolm X killed? (Part 3 of 3)
Date: 2/19/1995Call Number: KP 122Format: CassetteProducers: KPFACollection: Malcolm X
A few days before the 30th anniversary of Malcolm X’s murder the Nation of Islam organized a question and answer program so that members of the community could ask intellectuals and leaders from the Nation of Islam about Malcolm X and what the future of Blacks in America will be. This is the third tape in a series of three. It cuts in towards the end of the discussion. The questions asked deal with the relationship between Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, as well as the controversy surrounding his shooting. Another question also addresses who are the new leaders of the Black people and can there be a powerful, centralized movement and what direction is it coming from?