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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.

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Mabel Williams Interview, Part 2 Mabel Williams Interview, Part 2
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 022Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 2 of 3 CDs, addresses: conflicting relationship with the NAACP; takeover of NAACP rally in Harlem and crowd booing speakers; activist spirit of the time after leaving Monroe; sense of internationalism; visit from Japanese woman student and professor; alleged kidnapping part 2; decision to leave Monroe; decision to leave New York; decision to leave Canada; decision to go to Cuba; getting to Cuba; reception in Cuba; production of The Crusader in Exile; birth of Radio Free Dixie; response to the events in Birmingham; political struggles in Cuba; decision to leave Cuba; conflict with US Communist Party in Cuba; previous visits to China; political understanding of differences between communism in China and Soviet Union; RFW interviewed by Czech theorist; RFW interviewed and called a Trotskyite (66:28)
Speech at Crampton Auditorium Speech at Crampton Auditorium
Date: 2/26/1978Call Number: RFW 027Format: CDCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! TR-1 Describes China-I'm a grandson of a slave 9:20-Birmingham bombing 11:30-China's statement about Birmingham 12:50-I am not a communist/broadness of Chinese TR-2 2:20 why left china 5:00 socialism means… 8:00 differences with Mao 10:15 China and drugs/colonialism 11:00 fleeing US TR-3 rebellion, students & rebellion 1:20 drug problem in US 2:30 British/China drugs as pacification, people not cops solved the problem 4:00 uprisings in Detroit & Watts contained militarily but they won't rid community of dealers 5:00 drugs & genocide 7:50 Bakke 8:10 Reconstruction & now decline of culture & dope as pacification 10:00 flight to Canada 12:30 Black man escapes 14:00 signs of segregation 15:30 Roots, history and hostility 10:00 MLK, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers TR-4 white heroes, Black leaders dead 1:00 Black vs white 2:40 Rosa Parks know about the dead not the living 3:40 obligated to build better world resist tyranny 5:20 Crusader & China 6:00 China & rumors 9:00 history of Native Americans & slavery 14:50 Blacks killed for using restrooms.
Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie
Year: 1963Call Number: RFW 034Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 12-minute commentary by Robert F Williams. May 17, 1954 end to school desegregation decision seemed that the US was to become a civilized nation…to enforce the 14th ammendment, but merely legalization of the right to struggle - "leaves them [Blacks] to beg and prey" for rights. Hypocrisy of the US government Birmingham like South Africa. Vicious police attacks on Afro-Americans, police dogs feasting on human flesh. What is the position of the US government in "Dixie USA?" While Kennedy greets the Bay of Pigs invaders returning to Florida..."Slick John" is making the owrld 'safe for democracy' by supporting attacks on Blacks in the South, while churches and homes are bombed. Blacks "don't need promises, but action" "slick John remained motionless". There won't be change until violence becomes a two-way proposition. "The whole civilized world is on our side." "We must be willing to kill for freedom." "Freedomnow, or death." (20:00) news of Birmingham and NYC