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

Manong Velasco: food, monongs farming, islands, Chilli Peppers, Silverwing Cafe, life, sex, women, and white women. Manong Velasco: food, monongs farming, islands, Chilli Peppers, Silverwing Cafe, life, sex, women, and white women.
Date: 6/3/1975Call Number: CD 484Format: CDProducers: Al RoblesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Velasco talks of his health, diet, food, love life, and his past jobs. Velasco's favorite Filipino restaurants are now closed. Since these closings, Velasco eats mostly at Chinese and Italian restaurants. Velasco thinks Italian food is too expensive and Chinese restaurants don't give him what he wants. He also says if you don't know the right restaurant you could get food poisoning like other manongs. Although he goes through this anguish, he luckily has an Italian girlfriend that cooks for him. In the I-hotel many manongs have no refrigerators, so they leave food out to eat and get sick. Velasco is aware of this problem and prides his health first. With monthly visits to the doctor, he's told that he should not eat pork and fried foods. While others can't afford doctors and don't believe in them, Velasco luckily can see a doctor. Velasco also explains his past jobs in places such as Fresno, San Jose, and Santa Clara.