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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.
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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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Student rally at Regents Meeting Student rally at Regents Meeting
Date: 12/18/1964Call Number: CE 680Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: KPFKCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Jack Weinberg, UC Berkeley FSM organizer, and Jim Berland, a student organizer at UCLA (as well as an unidentified speaker) speak at a student rally at the December 1964 Regents Meeting at UCLA. Topics discussed include frustration with bureaucracy and a sense that administrators are “stalling,” the effects of the movement in building political awareness and a warmer community on campus at Berkeley and UCLA, power dynamics and the lack of formal hierarchy in the movement, and censorship of research in relation to corporate connections of university administrators. There is a short section at the end which is unintelligible due to being very sped up.
Regents Meeting rally, student dialogue, Interview with Assemblyman William Stanton Regents Meeting rally, student dialogue, Interview with Assemblyman William Stanton
Date: 12/18/1964Call Number: CE 682Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
FSM rally and vigil at UCLA during Regents meeting. There is interruption by unrelated choral group. Dialogue with two UCLA students: one supporting the Free Speech Movement and one opposed. Interview with 25th District Assemblyman William Stanton about political implications of UC Berkeley campus events. He disapproves of the use of state troopers in suppressing student protests and the lack of clarity around police authorization at the December 2-3rd sit-in.
Why was Patricia Hearst Kidnapped? Why was Patricia Hearst Kidnapped?
Publisher: The RealistDate: 2/1974Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This periodical is dedicated to the conspiracy that the SLA was colluding with the FBI and the CIA and uses many of Mae Brussell's conspiracy theories.
Psychiatrists and Cops: Unholy Alliance Psychiatrists and Cops: Unholy Alliance
Author: Philip ShapiroPublisher: New American MovementYear: 1973Volume Number: Vol. 3-1 SeptemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Mental Health
Original article discussing the relationship between law enforcement, prison authorities and psychiatry.
Senators Critical of Violence Study Senators Critical of Violence Study
Author: David PerlmanPublisher: San Francisco ChronicleDate: 5/31/1973Volume Number: 31-MayFormat: ArticleCollection: Mental Health
Original Article
Violence Study Center Defended by Researcher Violence Study Center Defended by Researcher
Author: David PerlmanPublisher: San Francisco ChronicleDate: 5/31/1973Volume Number: 31-MayFormat: ArticleCollection: Mental Health
Original Article
Clockwork Orange at UCLA Clockwork Orange at UCLA
Publisher: Committee Against Psychiatric Experimentation on PrisonersDate: 5/8/1973Volume Number: 8-MayFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Mental Health
Press release from the Committee Against Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners regarding the proposed Center for the Study and Reducation of Violence at UCLA