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

Vietnam Anti-War Protests Vietnam Anti-War Protests
Call Number: CD 577Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A variety of protests that were held against the continued presence in Vietnam. Columbia Student Revolt (1969) - A detailed documentary of the Columbia University student strike in 1969. Organized protests and steps taken to take over the school. - Sound, Black & White Run time: 49:05; Peace March. Thousands Oppose Vietnam War, 1967/04/18 (1967) - Antiwar demonstrators protest in Central Park, march to UN building, included students and hippies and priests and nuns, burn draft cards, shouted confrontations with anti-antiwar marchers, prowar signs, Martin Luther King leads procession; another march in downtown San Francisco, "President Johnson meanwhile let it be known that the FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity." - sound, b&w Run time: 2:50; Protests Galore! 1967/05/05 (1967) - This newsreel contains the following scenes: 1. Vietnam protest demonstration in Britain; also at Madrid University in Spain, burned American flag; also 4000 in Detroit at "love-in" and "be-in" with hippies and wild constumes 2. News In Brief - U.S. jet bombers hit North Vietnam targets 3. May Day parade in Moscow, Premier Kosygin - sound, b&w Run time: 3:16; Anti-War Demonstrators Storm Pentagon, 1967/10/24 (1967) - This newsreel contains the following scenes: 1. Mass protest against Vietnam war in Washington DC, on mall, across Potomac river to Pentagon, MPs with bayonets emerge from Pentagon, tear gas used, next day camp fires burn on the 2nd day of sitting-in 2. new turbo-jet transport plane by Germany - sound, b&w Run time: 1:51