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.

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Mayday 1971 Pentagon mass arrests report Mayday 1971 Pentagon mass arrests report
Date: 5/3/1971Call Number: RD 065Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Lincoln Bergman reports on the Mayday demonstration at the US Pantagon. 7,000 people were arrested, largest mass arrest in US history.
May Day Pentagon demonstrations May Day Pentagon demonstrations
Date: 5/2/1971Call Number: KP 302Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Report on May Day demonstrations at the Pentagon. Midnight Washington time, summary of day's events.
Mayday Report #1 Mayday Report #1
Date: 5/1/1971Call Number: KP 368Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
First report on Pentagon antiwar demonstrations in Washington DC.
Mayday Report #2 Mayday Report #2
Date: 5/2/1971Call Number: KP 369Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Second report on Pentagon antiwar demonstrations in Washington DC.
Mayday Report #3 Mayday Report #3
Date: 5/2/1971Call Number: KP 370 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Third report on Pentagon demonstrations.
Mayday Report #4 Mayday Report #4
Date: 5/3/1971Call Number: KP 371Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Fourth report on Pentagon antiwar demonstrations.
Mayday Report #5 Mayday Report #5
Date: 5/3/1971Call Number: KP 372Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Fifth report on Pentagon antiwar demonstrations.
Mayday Report #6 Mayday Report #6
Date: 5/3/1971Call Number: KP 373Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Sixth report on Pentagon antiwar demonstrations.
Mayday Report #7 Mayday Report #7
Date: 5/3/1971Call Number: KP 374Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Seventh report on Pentagon antiwar demonstrations.
Mayday Report #8 Mayday Report #8
Date: 5/4/1971Call Number: KP 375Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Anti-War
Eighth report on Pentagon antiwar demonstrations.