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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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Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 10/24/1971Call Number: RD 008Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Begins with spoken word recalling Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, who wrote from his cell during his 10-year imprisonment. News coverage of the State murder of George Jackson at San Quentin Prison; Continued and expanding victories for Indochine region, especially Laos; Mexican armed guerilla movements; Eritrean movement against Ethiopia; North Vietnam victim of the heaviest bombing raid waged against them since 1965; Right wing CIA-supported coup in Bolivia; Reading of "Concerning Hopes" by a Palestinian poet; China is opposing the Indian government; Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh; Divisions in the Black Panther Party
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 4/12/1975Call Number: NI 064Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Nancy barrett, Camomile, Mark Schwartz, Kathy StreemProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Major emphasis on the liberation of Da Nang, other Indochina news, demonstrations in Oakland (Bird Air) and New York City. Also news from Chile, southern Africa, San Quentin Six, and the capture of fugitive Susan Edith Saxe.
World in Action - Volume One World in Action - Volume One
Call Number: V 311Format: DVDProducers: Granada TVProgram: World in ActionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A major strand of British television programming – in this case Granada’s World in Action - roots through its archive and comes up with twelve fascinating offerings made between the 1960s and the 1990s. • Mick Jagger (tx. 31.07.1967) • End of a Revolution? (tx. 11.12.1967) Che Guevara and Regis Debray • The Demonstration (tx. 18.03.1968) Vietnam anti-war • The Quiet Mutiny (tx. 28.09.1970) Vietnam troops • The Man Who Stole Uganda (tx. 05.04.1971) Idi Amin • Death of a Revolutionary (tx. 27.09.1971) George Jackson • The Siege of Kontum (tx. 05.06.1972) Montagnards • The Life and Death of Steve Biko (tx. 03.10.1977) • Prisoner of Terrorism (tx. 10.07.1978) horst mahler • Banged Up (tx. 02.04.1979) Strangeways Prison • Killing for a Cure (tx. 16.02.1981) Animal Liberation Front • The Birmingham Six: Their Own Story (tx. 18.03.1991) Irish Republican Army
Nothing is More Precious Than (9-13-75) Nothing is More Precious Than (9-13-75)
Call Number: CD 578Format: CDProgram: NIMPTCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Program that is centered on the second anniversary of the coup in Chile and the fourth anniverary of the Attica prison rebellion. Chile section features actuality of Salvador Allende speech at UN, Pete Seeger on Victor Jara. Attica section features actuality of Frank Smith, William Kunstler, Amiri Baraka and several unnamed prisoners on Attica conditions, the rebellion, and the state's brutal response. Program also includes updates on repression at Wounded Knee and against the American Indian Movement, and an update on the San Quentin 6 trial. Bruce Soloway reports on Attica trials and solidarity events (including Amiri Baraka talk in Buffalo), then Claude Marks/Lincoln Bergman mix of Attica actuality. NIMPT 9-13-75 [NI036] Note: Some of the Attica actuality used on Freedom Archives “Prisons on Fire” CD.