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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.

Independent Collections

These collections were produced by independent journalists. Many of these recordings make up the bulk of the original collection of the Freedom Archives.

Subcollections

Documents

Nothing is More Precious Than Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 1/19/1974Call Number: NI 016Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett with Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Honors Martin Luther King and Amilcar Cabral (with Cabral speaking), and includes reports on the SLA (tape from Nancy Ling Perry), BLA trials in NYC (Francisco Torres), Wounded Knee trials (Dennis Banks), and San Quentin 6.
Nothing is More Precious Than Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 9/21/1974Call Number: NI 039Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of movement news, including demonstration in San Francisco about Chile, acquittal of Dennis Banks and Russell Means, reports on Assata Shakur, Marilyn Buck, Puerto Rico solidarity.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 10/18/1975Call Number: NI 084Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with Radio Free Portugal, then into stories on World Series, demonstration in support of Hurricane Carter, events at Wounded Knee/Pine Ridge, section on John Brown and Harriet Tubman (anniversary of Harper's Ferry) and then section on women in prison, including poems by a poet recently released, Norma Stafford.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/7/1976Call Number: NI 099Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, with Mark Schwartz, Andres Alegra, Molly Frankel, Peggy BerryhillProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with poetic refelection on huge earthquake in Guatemala, then roundup of Latin America news, Puerto Rico solodaity demonstration in San Francisco, then local demonstrations re Angola and the Phillipines. Next segments on prison ruling in Massachusetts, and San Quentin Six, and arrest of Dennis Banks and other Native American resistance developments.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/21/1976Call Number: NI 101Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: 02, 21, 1976Program: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with tribute to Augusto Cesar Sandino and Malcolm X on anniversary of assessinations, then reports on Dennis Banks and American Indian Movement, news about series of Bay Area arrests of alleged clandestine groups, ending with speech by labor organizer Kathy Dorsey at Hard Times conference in Chicago.
Ward Churchill - American Indian Movement of Pine Ridge: Siege by FBI and US Marshalls Ward Churchill - American Indian Movement of Pine Ridge: Siege by FBI and US Marshalls
Date: 3/23/1991Call Number: CE 484Format: Cass A & BProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Ward Churchill, author, activist, and former professor, speaks about the 71-day siege at Wounded Knee in which 200 or so Oglala Lakota and members of the AIM occupied Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation responding to the failure of impeaching the tribal president and to expose inhumane and corrupt conditions on Pine Ridge by the US Federal government through the tribal government. Churchill gives a succinct history of Lakota/US relations, including details of treaties, and discusses the role of COINTELPRO in neutralizing the AIM.