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

Dame la Mano Dame la Mano
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 290Format: VHSProducers: Heddy HonigmannCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On Sunday nights, Union City's La Esquina Habanera restaurant is the place to be for New Jersey's Cuban community. Here, professional and amateur dancers gyrate to the sensual and spirited rhythms of the rumba, a dance veteran practitioners credit for everything from curing cancer to sexual vigor in old age. Award-winning Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann listens to the stories of several Cuban exiles in this joyous cinematic celebration of Latin life, music, and dance that culminates with an exuberant nightclub finale.
The Last Revolutionary The Last Revolutionary
Date: 7/18/1996Call Number: V 489Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dan Rather interviews Fidel Castro about his life and the state of Cuba in the 1990s for 60 Minutes. Discussions of the Bay of Pigs victory for Cuba, as well as interviews with anti-Castro figures such as Castro's own sister.
The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez
Date: 7/27/1989Call Number: V 490Format: VHSProducers: Catherine Ryan, Gary WeimbergCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Traces the life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez/ Guillermo Morales, the son of FALN Prisoner of War Dylcia Pagan and exiled Puerto Rican independentista William Guillermo Morales. Guillermo’s early life with the Gomez Gomez family and the subsequent discovery of who his biological parents are and why they were in prison fighting for Puerto Rico’s independence lead him on a journey to reconnect with Dylcia while she was incarcerated in California. Dylcia recounts her history with the FALN, her charge of “seditious conspiracy,” and her life underground with Guillermo when he was a baby. Guillermo and Dylcia are interviewed extensively about the emotional ride that their reunion brings both of them.
Haiti: The Theology of Liberation Haiti: The Theology of Liberation
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 559Format: VHSProducers: Tim LindopCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary on liberation theology in Haiti.