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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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Vietnam Victory Vietnam Victory
Date: 5/3/1975Call Number: NI 056Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nancy Barrett, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is a Vietnam victory program. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 5/19/1973Call Number: RD 043Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon celebrating birthday of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 6/2/1973Call Number: RD 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Mary MackeyProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program reports on events following General Alexander Haig running the White House as Chief of Staff. First impeach Nixon rally in Berkeley. Bombing of Cambodia continues. Defoliant 245T (dioxin) in Vietnam, pesticides, Latin America news roundup, Ho Chi Minh on children’s day.
The Question of Afro-American Manhood, Part 2 The Question of Afro-American Manhood, Part 2
Call Number: RFW 025Format: CassetteCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! William continues. Tells the British imprisonment story. What makes you so determined? Story of forefathers. Guests of Ho Chi Minh, dinner at Vietnam embassy, thank and congratulate you. "Because we read your publication on urban guerrilla warfare, and we decided to have the Tet offensive! " We got to start to train our youth. My motto--I would prefer to live 30 seconds than to live 1000 years crawing at the feet of my oppressor. Tells story of Hotel Teresa, NAACP. Band national anthem--boooed--booed again. Group of young men, lift him up, and he spoke. Drowned out Joe Williams...Got to try to reclaim the glory that once was Harlem...you can't quit. The secret to power is unity...if you don't have that you just can't make it. Willing to die. always on guard. we introduced molotov cocktail to the freedom movement. All women and children started making molotov cocktails. UNITY! You can move mountains if you're united. Tells China story of "old man who moved mountains." Question Period begins.Tells story about Ho Chi Minh when he lived in Harlem; founded French communist party. Young people--how pass on the legacy? 3 kinds of allies...all the way, part the way, on the fence...don't push them off the other side. How teach history to masses of Black youth? Tells about John Brown society. Gotta have some showmanship. Talks about his two pistols, legal so long as unconcealed. Governor got upset. "Legal but setting a bad example"--no 14th amendment--when he brings law and order I'll put these guns away. I've lived a full life. King said...RFW I was born to get killed...but I have already outlived him. Radio Free Dixie...I could say what I wanted to. Issue of slang...Black English in schools. So foreign friends can understand. Cuban women, story about radio broadcasts---why is he obsessed with "cats" all the time. Marshal Chu Teh was an opium addict. Tells his story. Kicked the habit cold turkey. Some of most brilliant minds have fallen prey. Tells story of Mao's statement. Talks about cultural revolution. Comment on Communism and strategy in China. Short quote--"the man who writes our textbook is not going to tell our history." Plug for black papers. The type of education that we need. Closing by Elombe Brath.
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks - Captured US Military Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks - Captured US Military
Call Number: KP 169AFormat: Cass ACollection: Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh addresses the antiwar movements of various countries in Vietnamese, Chinese, French, English US POWs speaking from captivity in Vietnam. Recorded by the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. Also on CD 390
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks - Captured US Military Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks - Captured US Military
Call Number: CD 390Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Track 1 - Ho Chi Minh adresses the anti-war movements of various countries in Vietnamese, Chinese, French, English track 2 - US POWs speaking from captivity in Vietnam. Recorded by the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. Same as KP 169
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh Speaks
Call Number: KP 170Format: Cass A & BCollection: Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh addresses the antiwar movement in English - edited version. Also on CD 390 & KP 169
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
Call Number: KP 172Format: CassetteCollection: Vietnam
Declaration of Independence of Vietnam read by Ho Chi Minh - in Vietnamese. 2 other statements - in Vietnamese Also on CD 391
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
Call Number: CD 391Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Declaration of Independence of Vietnam read by Ho Chi Minh - in Vietnamese. 2 other statements - in Vietnamese Same as KP 172
Vietnam Victory Vietnam Victory
Date: 5/3/1975Call Number: CD 396Format: CDProducers: Nancy Barrett, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
This is a Vietnam victory program. Same as NI 005 NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.