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

Anti-Nuclear and Prison News Anti-Nuclear and Prison News
Date: 8/8/1981Call Number: FI 143Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Anti-nuclear commentary and music mix to mark anniversary of US atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Detailed news reports on Black prisoners case of Harris, Johnson, and others in Alabama prison; Janice Paynter women's self-defense murder case, and Seattle case of assassinated union leaders. Closes with "Warriors of the Rainbow" song.
White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Date: 8/6/2007Call Number: V 660Format: DVDProducers: HBO, Steven OkazakiCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
White Light, Black Rain an HBO documentary film that was directed and produced by Steven Okazaki. Released on the 62nd anniversary of the first atomic bomb, the film features interviews with fourteen Japanese survivors and four Americans involved in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Archives of Freedom - 3 The Archives of Freedom - 3
Date: 7/12/1986Call Number: FI 193Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Rebroadcast with new introduction of the August 4, 1973 program (The Real Dragon with Lincoln Bergman and Claude Marks) with news and actuality on Hiroshima, Indochina, Watergate break-in, prison rebellions, GI resistance, and repeated theme of Richard Helms on "breaking and entering." Revolutionary song by active-duty GIs closes the show.