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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference
Date: 11/1/1993Call Number: JG/ 030Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference in Durham, NC. Various speakers present on the Right and its agenda, violence, rhetoric and organizing tactics against it. Speakers include Jean Barstown from political research associates in Boston which does oppositional research about the right.
Anti-racist protest in Boston Anti-racist protest in Boston
Call Number: KP 012BFormat: Cass BProducers: Dave LampellCollection: General materials
Dave Lampell’s program gives live coverage from an antiracist protest in Boston. Speakers include Amiri Baraka and Dick Gregory. Amiri Baraka’s speech discusses State violence, imperialism, capitalism, racism and war. Great quotes for vinyl project. Racism in the Boston area is also discussed. Also live coverage from protest taking over streets and police brutality.
Racism in Boston and San Francisco in 1980 Racism in Boston and San Francisco in 1980
Date: 1/1/1980Call Number: LA 166AFormat: Cass ACollection: Black Liberation
A woman describes her experiences with racism growing up in Boston. She discusses her own racial-consciousness awakening during the integration busing crisis of the mid-1970s. She compares the racism in Boston with the more subtle racism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other topics include the lack of real response of various local politicians concerning racism, a string of serial killer murders of black women in 1979 in Boston and Carter's recent defeat over Ted Kennedy in the Democratic Presidential Primary.
Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh
Date: 5/17/1980Call Number: FI 118Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano Echeverria, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Poetry. music, and speech collage as a tribute to Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X. Section on racism in Boston, interview with an African-American woman by Barbara Lubinski on racism in Boston.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-6 August 8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald Political Prisoner 1970 San Quentin Prison Death Row. Also inside: Two articles by Kathleen Cleaver, Unfit Housing Conditions, Statement by Nguyen Minh Vy, Boston's South End, Horrible Housing Conditions Not Fit For Shelter of Human Beings.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-9 March 27Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The World Is Yours, As Well As Ours, But in the Last Analysis, It Is Yours. You, Young People, Full of Vigor and Vitality, are in the Bloom of Life, like the Sun at Eight or Nine in the Morning. Our Hope is Placed on You.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 7-5 October 4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Black Panther Party Proclaims Revolutionary Intercommunal Solidarity with the Congolese People, The Revolutionary Government of Congo-Brazzaville and the Congolese Worker's Party
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 4 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Introduction, Letter from Emily Harris, October 27, 1975, Lolita Lebron and Blanca Canales, Susan Saze Statement, June 9, 1975, On Being Underground -- Katherine Power and Susan Saxe, Colation Against Psychiatric Assault: Demonstration, A Collective Letter to the Women's Movement from the Women of the Weather Underground, WUO Women's Brigade bombs Dept of H.E.W., March 1974, Poem, Statement from Sisters of the Symbionese Liberation Army, October 21, 1975, Militant Women: a Brief History, Open Letter to the Fighting Forces, Puerto Rican Solidarity, New World Liberation Front Communique: Fort Ord
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 9 JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Feminism & Homosexuality: New World Liberation Front, The Women's Question is a Class Question: Weather Underground Organization, Responses from: BARC, Emily Harris, Left Bank Political Collective, Peoples' Information Relay-1 NWLF, A Working Class Lesbian Collective, Edward Mead, NWLF Scumlord Campaign, BARC Critique of NWLF Campigns, NWLF Open Letter to BARC, NWLF on Zapata Unit, Seattle Under Attack, To the George Jackson Brigade, Shorts, The Boston Courthouse Bombing, Criticism PIR-1, Fred Hampton Unit
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 10 SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Central Command NWLF, Open Letter to BARC, People's Information Relay-1, A Sad Duty, BARC's Reply to the NWLF, Responses on Feminism/Homosexuality, Jim Parker, Ken Como, Dyke Daughter of a CIO Organizer, Dragon: Militant Reformism, Armed Struggle -- Revolutionary Vanguard, Seattle: News Update, Grand Jury Resistance, The Brigade, A Note to Snapdragon from Ed Mead, Criticism of the George Jackson Brigade from a Seattle Collective, New Dawn Infiltrated, Maryland Penitentiary Intercommunal, Survival Collective, News From Boston, California Prisons: On Trial (Remiro and Little), Trial Statements: Emily and Bill Harris