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

Robert F Williams Interview with Marc Schleifer Part 2 Robert F Williams Interview with Marc Schleifer Part 2
Date: 7/4/1962Call Number: RFW 038Format: CDProducers: Marc SchleiferCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Pacifica Radio - Marc Schleifer interview Track 1 industrial commission development ***3:12 Freedom Riders (to 8min) 8min beating of 10-year old for being on picket line, others attacked 9:30 police refused to protect them 12:00 Governor's assistant - death threat 14:30 no FBI help 15min threats against Freedom Riders 16min Black community defends itself against supremacist crowd Track 2 0:41 minutemen, racists gather in town, Klan ready to attack students & Freedom Riders 1:38 cops disarm Blacks, give them over to whites 2:20 cops become vicious - spray Freedom Riders with insecticides 3:30 police participated openly in violence August 27, 1961 6min demanded medical attention for Freedom Riders 7:40 "open season on coons" Track 3 1min the incident 8:50 life threatened 11:15 heard about indictment 14:19 indicted & house raided after they left Track 4 4:15 they meant to get rid of me with charges (no justice in North Carolina) *11min justice department part of the conspiracy *15min the only crime was to fight for human rights...over 5000 arrested (to end)
Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: JG/ 117Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Explains his experience resisting racism and white supremacy in Depression-era, Jim Crow and poverty stricken South in the 1930s. He talks about the class construction and expansion the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the growth of antiracist organization, including his personal investigation of Klan activity.