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

Student experiences with sit-ins: Michael Marcus, Art Goldberg, Stephanie Coontz Student experiences with sit-ins: Michael Marcus, Art Goldberg, Stephanie Coontz
Call Number: CE 685Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interviews with three students who were arrested at the sit-in at Sproul Hall on the 2nd and 3rd of December 1964. Students discuss the atmosphere of the sit-in, the arrival of the police, police brutality, and attempts to alienate the students from other prisoners in the Santa Rita Jail. Further discussed are President Clark Kerr’s changes to education and the campus, their parents’ reactions to their arrests and general perspectives on the FSM.
Student experiences with sit-ins: Stephanie Coontz, Andy Wells, Lynn Wollander, Ron Anastasi Student experiences with sit-ins: Stephanie Coontz, Andy Wells, Lynn Wollander, Ron Anastasi
Call Number: CE 686Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Interviews with students who were arrested during the December 2nd and 3rd Sproul Hall sit-in. Four students recount their experiences during the sit-in, the mass arrest, being detained in the basement of Sproul Hall, experiences in Santa Rita jail, students being thrown in solitary confinement and the denial of legal assistance to the students.
Assemblyman Donald Mulford: 16th Assembly District Assemblyman Donald Mulford: 16th Assembly District
Call Number: CE 702Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Assemblyman Mulford watched many of the arrests that took place at Sproul Hall on December 2nd and 3rd and talks about what he saw. This recording illuminates some of the details behind the decision to send in police to break up the sit-in. Mulford describes student leaders as “militant”, “profane”, “defiant”; talks about recognizing the hardcore leadership from other local protests and justifies the decision to use the police by claiming there would have been “bloodshed in the morning” and “mob violence” had the police not intervened. He answers questions about the autonomy of the university, allegations of physical mistreatment by students against the police, faculty support of students, the political make-up of the FSM leadership and the importance of this issue in the next election.