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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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US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview
Call Number: C 10 005Format: Beta SPCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Various footage of late 1960s and 70s, including:murder of John Huggins and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter; news report and footage of arrests of BPP members in New Orleans; Nixon delivering “thugs and hoodlums” speech; LA District Attorney criticizing militant protestors; Mayher; students reading newspaper on Kent State shootings; Free Bobby Seale and anti-war protest; burning of US flags at protest; Charles Brennan, FBI Internal Security chief, questioned by Frank Church during the Church Committee hearings. In Spanish, a short interview with Che Guevara.
US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview
Call Number: C 10 006Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Various footage of late 1960s and 70s, including:murder of John Huggins and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter; news report and footage of arrests of BPP members in New Orleans; Nixon delivering “thugs and hoodlums” speech; LA District Attorney criticizing militant protestors; Mayher; students reading newspaper on Kent State shootings; Free Bobby Seale and anti-war protest; burning of US flags at protest; Charles Brennan, FBI Internal Security chief, questioned by Frank Church during the Church Committee hearings.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 10 SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Central Command NWLF, Open Letter to BARC, People's Information Relay-1, A Sad Duty, BARC's Reply to the NWLF, Responses on Feminism/Homosexuality, Jim Parker, Ken Como, Dyke Daughter of a CIO Organizer, Dragon: Militant Reformism, Armed Struggle -- Revolutionary Vanguard, Seattle: News Update, Grand Jury Resistance, The Brigade, A Note to Snapdragon from Ed Mead, Criticism of the George Jackson Brigade from a Seattle Collective, New Dawn Infiltrated, Maryland Penitentiary Intercommunal, Survival Collective, News From Boston, California Prisons: On Trial (Remiro and Little), Trial Statements: Emily and Bill Harris