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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.
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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.
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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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Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 8/4/1973Call Number: RD 054Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
U.S. support of racist regimes in Africa, political and cultural responses in the U.S. and abroad.
Soulbook #1: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #1: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: Afro-American Research InstitutionYear: 1964Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: Black Nationalism on the Right; US, The Congo and the OAS; Reject Notes (poetry); The Real Reasons Tanganyika and Zanzibar United and Became Tanzania; On Methods of Leadership; Puddn' Head and the Negro- A Study of Mark Twain's anti-negro attittudes; Memorandum to the United Nations on Political Detainees and Political Prisoners in South Africa; Annotated Bibliography on the South African Situtation; The Masters and the Slaves (review); A Short History of Africa (review); Delicate Child.
Soulbook #2: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #2: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: Afro-American Research InstitutionYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-2 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: El Hajji Malik Shabazz- Leader, Prophet, Martyr; Did the United Nations Benefit Congo?; American Savagery and the Future; The Toilet- Is it a Masterpiece, of is it trash? A debate Between Langston Hughes and Bobb Hamilton; To All the Freedom Loving Peoples of the World; Reject Notes (poetry); Letter to Draft Board 100, Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan; WEB DuBois- Black militant or Negro Leader?; Apartheid is doomed!; The Negro Image in Western Art.
Soulbook #3: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #3: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: Afro-American Research InstitutionYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-3 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: That's WATTS Happenin'; Africa, China and the U.S.; The Man From F.L.N.- Brother Frantz Fanon; Do Jesus?; The Facade of Bourgeois Democracy; Reject Notes (Poetry); Partners in White Racism; The Crisis of Negro Reformism and the Growth of Nationalism; The Puerto Rican Revolution; LA REVOLUTION PUERTORRIQUENA; Notes on James Boggs American Revolution THE MAN FROM F.L.N.:BROTHER FRANTz FANON
Moncada Library Newsletter Moncada Library Newsletter
Author: Moncada LibraryPublisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationDate: 2/1981Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Moncada Library
Newsletter with updates on Mayor Ed Koch's Police policies, SCAN and the Fox and Agrillo case. Also includes information on SWAPO and the Dollars for Bullets campaign, the Pontiac brothers case and the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee National Day of Action in Washington D.C. for the Reagan inauguration.
The Death of Samora Moises Machel: A Funeral Eulogy The Death of Samora Moises Machel: A Funeral Eulogy
Author: Marcelino dos SantosPublisher: The Africa Fund (associated with The American Committee on Africa)Date: 10/28/1986Volume Number: 28-OctFormat: MonographCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
A packet of materials eulogizing Samora Machel, revolutionary leader and first president of Mozambique
South Africa- The Black Consciousness Movement South Africa- The Black Consciousness Movement
Format: PamphletCollection: South Africa
Historical Background of the Black Consciousness Movement; What is Black Consciousness; Some Principles and Aims of the Black Consciousness Movement; Major Organizations Under the Umbrella of the Black Consciousness Movement
Azania Combat- Official Organ of the Azanian People\'s Liberation Army (APLA) Azania Combat- Official Organ of the Azanian People\'s Liberation Army (APLA)
Publisher: PAC Military Wing (APLA/POQO)Year: 1987Volume Number: Issue 3Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Reproduction of the original. Inside: The Azanian People now know their enemy.
Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist
Publisher: Art Against ApartheidFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Asking people to picket the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and Vogue Theater in San Francisco against film The Gods Must Be Crazy
Shut Down South African Airways Shut Down South African Airways
Format: EphemeraCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Card calling for demonstrations against South African Airways in San Francisco on second Wednesday of each month