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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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David Gilbert Interview David Gilbert Interview
Date: 7/31/1998Call Number: V 036Format: VHSProducers: Sam GreenCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
David Gilbert interviewed at Great Meadows Prison in New York about his political history and development as an anti racist, anti sexist, anti imperialist person. Includes commentary on the development of SDS (Student for a Democratic Society), the Black Power Movement, the Black Panther Party (BPP), Black Liberation Army (BLA), COINTELPRO and many other issues from the 60s forward. VHS copy of DV camera originals, Part 1
David Gilbert Interview David Gilbert Interview
Date: 7/31/1998Call Number: V 037Format: VHSProducers: Sam GreenCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
David Gilbert interviewed at Great Meadows Prison in New York about his political history and development as an anti racist, anti sexist, anti imperialist person. Includes commentary on the development of SDS (Student for a Democratic Society), the Black Power Movement, the Black Panther Party (BPP), Black Liberation Army (BLA), COINTELPRO and many other issues from the 60s forward. VHS copy of DV camera originals, Part 2
Dr. Muhammad Ahmad for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2) Dr. Muhammad Ahmad for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2)
Date: 7/31/2008Call Number: C 10 024Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)—Founder of Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and professor at Temple University.
Dr. Muhammad Ahmad for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2) Dr. Muhammad Ahmad for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2)
Date: 7/31/2008Call Number: C 10 025Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)—Founder of Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and professor at Temple University.
Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101 Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/12/2007Call Number: C 10 031Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Former leader of the BPP, now Professor of Law at Emory and Yale Universities and an expert on COINTELPRO.
Incident at Oglala Clips Incident at Oglala Clips
Date: 4/22/2009Call Number: C 10 040Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Documentary directed by Michael Apted on Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Following 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, and amid tensions between US government and Lakota Sioux, two FBI agents and one Native American killed by gunfire on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Peltier was later arrested and imprisoned, although there was little direct evidence, and others charged earlier were found not guilty on the basis of legitimate self-defense. Narrated by Robert Redford (also the executive producer), the film revisits the scene of the shooting and assembles archival footage and interviews to show how Peltier was never granted a fair trial, while painting a larger portrait of social injustice in view of the contemporary living conditions of Native Americans.
Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101 Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 11/12/2008Call Number: C 10 069Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Interview about Cointelpro.
Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101 Akinyele Umoja for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 11/12/2008Call Number: C 10 070Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Interview about Cointelpro.
Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101 Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/12/2007Call Number: C 10 073Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Former leader of the BPP, now Professor of  Law at Emory and Yale Universities and an expert on COINTELPRO.
Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101 Kathleen Cleaver for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 12/12/2007Call Number: C 10 074Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Former leader of the BPP, now Professor of  Law at Emory and Yale Universities and an expert on COINTELPRO.