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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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Watsonville Elections #1 Watsonville Elections #1
Date: 12/5/1989Call Number: CV 067Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews candidates and voters in Watsonville, CA about the election taking place. Focuses on the Chicano and Latino voting in the historic elections.
One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike
Call Number: CV 070Format: Cass A & BProgram: Women's MagazineCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Ending of retrospective on Lydia Mendoza leads into radio program about the Watsonville Canning Strike and the role of Chicana workers in the success and solidarity of the strike. Program includes interviews of workers, Secretary Treasurer of Teamsters Local 912 Sergio Lopez, strike leader Gloria Betancourt. Includes speeches by Gloria Betancourt at Mecha in Berkeley, and Jesse Jackson in Watsonville.
Watsonville Elections #2 Watsonville Elections #2
Date: 12/5/1989Call Number: CV 071Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews candidates and voters in Watsonville, CA about the election taking place. Focuses on the Chicano and Latino voting in the historic elections. Results are announced, Varela interviews outgoing politicians and defeated candidates. Cruz Gomez, Rex Clark, John Radin, etc.
Watsonville Decision Tape III Watsonville Decision Tape III
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: CV 080Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Conference about re-districting in local elections in Watsonville, California to allow for Chicano representation in government. Speakers include civic officials from Santa Cruz and Santa Clara County, including incumbent mayor Betty Murphy.
Watsonville Decision Tape I Watsonville Decision Tape I
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: CV 079Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Conference about re-districting in local elections in Watsonville, California to allow for Chicano representation in government. Speakers include attorneys in the legal battle to end at-large elections.
One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike
Call Number: CD 656Format: CDProgram: Women's MagazineCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Ending of retrospective on Lydia Mendoza leads into radio program about the Watsonville Canning Strike and the role of Chicana workers in the success and solidarity of the strike. Program includes interviews of workers, Secretary Treasurer of Teamsters Local 912 Sergio Lopez, strike leader Gloria Betancourt. Includes speeches by Gloria Betancourt at Mecha in Berkeley, and Jesse Jackson in Watsonville.
One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike
Call Number: CD 657Format: CDProgram: Women's MagazineCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Ending of retrospective on Lydia Mendoza leads into radio program about the Watsonville Canning Strike and the role of Chicana workers in the success and solidarity of the strike. Program includes interviews of workers, Secretary Treasurer of Teamsters Local 912 Sergio Lopez, strike leader Gloria Betancourt. Includes speeches by Gloria Betancourt at Mecha in Berkeley, and Jesse Jackson in Watsonville.