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

Fidel Castro 1984 Speech Fidel Castro 1984 Speech
Date: 12/14/1984Call Number: CV 063Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Fidel Castro's speech announcing the agreement to normalize migration between the United States and Cuba. He reads the agreement, gives an account of how it came about, and what it means for the future.
Cuba: Andres Gomez Cuba: Andres Gomez
Date: 6/11/1993Call Number: CV 083AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Andres Gomez. coordinator for the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the leftist progressive Cuban organization out of Miami. Topics include the contemporary state of US-Cuban relations, right wing Cuban Americans, and the Cuban economy's troubles.
Dr. Carlos Tablada Interview Dr. Carlos Tablada Interview
Date: 4/21/1990Call Number: CV 103AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Dr. Carlos Tablada, the Cuban economist and author, about the state of Cuba following the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Tablada responds to charges and assumptions common in North America about the freedom and success of the Cuban revolution. Tablada highlights the economic growth in techonological, industrial and health sectors as successes of the revolution and dismisses Cuban-American propaganda from Miami. Interview in Spanish only, Side B is music section of the show.
Fidel Castro - Televised Speech Fidel Castro - Televised Speech
Call Number: V 338Format: VHSProducers: CNNProgram: CNNCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Issues include a medicine shortage and Guantanamo Bay.