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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.
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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.
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.

Independent Collections

These collections were produced by independent journalists. Many of these recordings make up the bulk of the original collection of the Freedom Archives.

Subcollections

Documents

Main Floor ASUC November 30 1966 Reel 1 Main Floor ASUC November 30 1966 Reel 1
Date: 11/30/1966Call Number: CE 753Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Discussion from within the main floor of the ASUC building during the November 30th, 1966 demonstration. About twelve people, mostly students and one faculty member, discuss the possibility of a strike the following day and how to organize it. Most students are in favor of the strike and talk about how to set up picket lines as well as involve the TAs and faculty. Has many splices that can break.
Main Floor ASUC November 30 1966 Reel 2 Main Floor ASUC November 30 1966 Reel 2
Date: 11/30/1966Call Number: CE 754Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
More discussion from within the demonstration in the ASUC building on November 30th, 1966. Students and faculty continue to talk about the possibility of striking the following day. Professor Henkin tried to call a vote on postponing the strike, which students called a "cheap demagogic trick." They discuss the Mulford Act arrests of non-students and the status of non-students. Students find out that ASUC voted to strike if two demands were not met before the following morning. Speakers who are opposed to the idea of a strike are given the stage to talk.
Main Floor ASUC November 30 1966 Reel 3 Main Floor ASUC November 30 1966 Reel 3
Date: 11/30/1966Call Number: CE 756Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
More discussion from within the demonstration in the ASUC building on November 30th, 1966. Students and faculty continue to talk about the possibility of striking the following day. Speakers discuss how leaders have been singled out, the campus issues that students disagree with, the faculty's inaction, the willingness of graduate students to help with a strike, as well as reasons not to strike. The third speaker announces that bail has been set at $3300 per person for the three non-students who had been arrested. He presents the three demands for the strike: No police on campus, amnesty for participants in the demonstration, and student power on campus.
12/2 Press Conference Negotiating Committee 12/2 Press Conference Negotiating Committee
Date: 12/2/1966Call Number: CE 767Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Press conference with three participants in the strike: Dan Rosenthal, a representative from the AFT (TA union) and another participant. They discuss and answer questions about the administration's refusal to negotiate with the strike's negotiating committee. Negotiations could not begin at the time because the administration refused to negotiate with the strike committee since it contained one non-student (Mario Savio). The AFT would not negotiate without the strike committee, and the ASUC agreed not to engage in negotiations.