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

Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist
Publisher: Art Against ApartheidFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Asking people to picket the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and Vogue Theater in San Francisco against film The Gods Must Be Crazy
Emergency Demonstration Emergency Demonstration
Publisher: Campaign to Shut Down South African Airways, Freedom Rising Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 8/17/1985Volume Number: 17-AugFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calling for demonstration in San Francisco against South African Airways
Down With South African Airways Down With South African Airways
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 1/14/1985Volume Number: 14-JanFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calling for demo of South African Airways, 360 Post, SF, as part of movement against apartheid
Solidarity with the Uprising of the People of South Africa Solidarity with the Uprising of the People of South Africa
Publisher: Southern Africa Freedom Committee--All-Peoples CongressDate: 9/15/1984Volume Number: 15-SepFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calling for rally at Bank of America, Market and Powell, SF, to support Prop J to end investment of city pension funds doing business with South Africa
Labor Movement Takes on Apartheid South Africa Labor Movement Takes on Apartheid South Africa
Publisher: Bay Area Free South Africa MovementFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Urging people to wear a red ribbon, which means Stop Apartheid Now!
Protest the Visit of South African Ambassador in San Francisco Protest the Visit of South African Ambassador in San Francisco
Publisher: San Francisco Anti-Apartheid CommitteeDate: 3/11/1985Volume Number: 11-MarFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calls for protest at St. Francis Hotel of South African Ambassador's visit
Oakland: Divest Now! Oakland: Divest Now!
Publisher: Bay Area Free South Africa MovementDate: 5/1985Volume Number: MayFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
To get Oakland residents to attend May 23, 1985 City Council meeting re: divesting Oakland monies from apartheid South Africa
Juneteenth '85 Juneteenth '85
Author: Anti-apartheid contingentPublisher: U.S. Out of Southern Africa Network/Southern Africa Freedom Committee-APCDate: 6/15/1985Volume Number: 15-JunFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
To get people to join the anti-apartheid section of the Juneteenth parade
Demonstrate Against IBM Demonstrate Against IBM
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 6/21/1984Volume Number: 21-JunFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Call for demo at IBM Building in Oakland - no computer to South Africa
Azania Will Be Free! Down with South Africa! Azania Will Be Free! Down with South Africa!
Publisher: Pan Africanist Congress, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Freedom Rising! Arica Solidarity CommitteeVolume Number: 13-AprFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Event to celebrate 25th anniversary of Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, part of national tour of John Nyati Pokela, with African Dance of Kusema Vijiti Institute