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

Speech at Crampton Auditorium Speech at Crampton Auditorium
Date: 2/26/1978Call Number: RFW 027Format: CDCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! TR-1 Describes China-I'm a grandson of a slave 9:20-Birmingham bombing 11:30-China's statement about Birmingham 12:50-I am not a communist/broadness of Chinese TR-2 2:20 why left china 5:00 socialism means… 8:00 differences with Mao 10:15 China and drugs/colonialism 11:00 fleeing US TR-3 rebellion, students & rebellion 1:20 drug problem in US 2:30 British/China drugs as pacification, people not cops solved the problem 4:00 uprisings in Detroit & Watts contained militarily but they won't rid community of dealers 5:00 drugs & genocide 7:50 Bakke 8:10 Reconstruction & now decline of culture & dope as pacification 10:00 flight to Canada 12:30 Black man escapes 14:00 signs of segregation 15:30 Roots, history and hostility 10:00 MLK, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers TR-4 white heroes, Black leaders dead 1:00 Black vs white 2:40 Rosa Parks know about the dead not the living 3:40 obligated to build better world resist tyranny 5:20 Crusader & China 6:00 China & rumors 9:00 history of Native Americans & slavery 14:50 Blacks killed for using restrooms.