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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.
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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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Independence of Angola Independence of Angola
Date: 11/15/1975Call Number: AFR 083AFormat: Cass ACollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Radio News Program on the independence of Angola. About the newly won independence of Angola (11/11/1975), ending violence between the Angolan people and their Portuguese colonizers. The MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) is recognized for its strong Leadership of the struggle for independence. Augustino Neto, leader of the FNLA (National Front for the LIberation of Angola) and UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola - led by Jonas Savimbi). He speaks about the cooperation he saw between the different African countries, and celebrates Angolan independence. Also discussed are the problems in Rwanda between the different racial groups and the negotiations among colonizers and the people of Rwanda. Also various people speak about Vietnam, Chile, and world events.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/14/1976Call Number: NI 100Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks with Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with major focus on Angola with report by Stave Talbot, and report on Roy Innis of CORE's statements on Angola and protests against them. Then focus on native American struggle at Pine Ridge, Arthur Kinoy on Puerto Rico, San Quentin Six (with info on George Jackson 1971 assassination), and speech at the Hard Times conference in Chicago by Carlos Vasquez on issue of undocumented workers.
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1978Volume Number: No. 9 JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: Africanist Congress of Azania; the Marxist-Leninist Opposition in the Revisionist South African Communist Party; Azanian Class Struggle and South African Colonialism; Imperialism and Mineral Resources in Southern Africa; The Rot in the ANC of South Africa; Revisionism and the Cultural Revolution; Excerpts from a History of Swaziland; Steve Biko on Social-Imperialism; On the Theory of the Three Worlds; Interview with UNITA Commander; and more.
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1978Volume Number: No. 10 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: The National Question in Azania; The Relationship between Racialism and National Oppression in Azania; The Youth in Azania; African Revolutionary Intellectuals and the Social Transformation of Africa; ZANU and the Zimbabwean Revolution; Kampuchea; more
Constructive Engagement: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat African Liberation and Build Neo-colonialism Constructive Engagement: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat African Liberation and Build Neo-colonialism
Publisher: Revolution in Africa Action CommitteeFormat: MonographCollection: South Africa
A critical analysis of the current US policy toward Africa and an argument for building anti-imperialist solidarity with African liberation.