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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.
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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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Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 1 Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 1
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 171Format: CDProducers: NRPCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 2 Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 2
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 172Format: CDProducers: NRPCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner
Date: 3/4/2004Call Number: CD 173Format: CDProducers: Walter TurnerCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Interview with Mabel Williams by Walter Turmer for Africa Today and Hard Knock Radio.
Robert F Williams Interview with Marc Schleifer Part 1 Robert F Williams Interview with Marc Schleifer Part 1
Date: 7/4/1962Call Number: RFW 037Format: CDCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Pacifica Radio - Marc Schleifer interview Track 1 *7min - repression against them designed to crush the human rights movement…, leaving to Cuba (to 9min) Track 2 defends against Soviet weapons found in the community, lots about the minutemen, JBS (John Birch Society) being protected by the U.S. government Track 3 * 2 min "if we had not been armed in Monroe (to 4 min) Q- are you a communist? * *(4:15) ...not a communist, but every humanitarian movement in the u.s. is branded as communistic *6 min "people want to be liberated...Blacks rebelled long before Marx or Marxism" *7:30 "Blacks need not be told (by Marxists) that racial opression is wrong (to 8:11) 9:35 white allies movement branded as communist not true 10:37 nature of people to resist opression 11 Monroe as lesson & symbol of new era Track 4 there will be more racial explosions 0:57 opressor in us...more militant movement, non-violence will continue, but any struggle is flexible, not only one method of struggle *2min when fascism comes, non-violence is suicidal *4:40 average Afro-American is not a pacifist *5 min nonviolence is a tactic that we approve of, but... 6min soon the forces of opression are going to learn the hard way 7:30 Black nationalism? label to attack Blacks *8:20 I am an Afro-American 9min movement not excluding whites Track 5 *00 I am an internationalist 3 min bring attention to race problem throughout the world 7 mineven the pet cemetary was segregated, Klan leaders = preachers 11min stupidity of Jim Crow Track 6 2:50 people of the world join in the quest for justice Track 7 1min fellowship with the world
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)