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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.

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Role of Mujeres in the Party and Chicano movement Role of Mujeres in the Party and Chicano movement
Date: 9/3/1972Call Number: LA 011AFormat: Cass ACollection: Xican@
La Raza Unida national convention: first time La Raza Unida as a political party has met on a national level, and women met to discuss their roles. Evelina Alarcon speaks about the role of women.
Interview with Billye Avery Interview with Billye Avery
Call Number: SS 002AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Billye Avery about the National Black Women's Health Project in Atlanta, Georgia.
Truth to Power - Women Prisoners Testify Truth to Power - Women Prisoners Testify
Date: 10/11/2002Call Number: V 328Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Legislative Hearings: Speaking Truth to Power Courageous women prisoners testify on medical and sexual abuse before legislative committee October 11 and 12, 2002 at Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) and California Institution for Women (CIW).
Latina Health Latina Health
Date: 2/26/1990Call Number: CV 226AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Luz Alvarez Martinez talks about the National Latina Health Organization and their work to approach Latina health holistically.
Fenette Blackbear Fenette Blackbear
Call Number: KP 401AFormat: Cass AProducers: Carole TravisCollection: Native Americans
About her and her children's health problems, distrust in western medicine, and how doctors have either neglected or blamed Native American women for the birth defects of children rather than examining contaminated water.
Jackie Huber Jackie Huber
Call Number: KP 401BFormat: Cass BProducers: Carole TravisCollection: Native Americans
About the range of medical care problems occurring on Native American reservations ranging from miscarriages to high infant mortality rates due to contaminated water. Also government's unresponsiveness and lack of studies and funding that women on the reservation have been working towards.
Role of mujeres in the Party - Ramsey Muniz Role of mujeres in the Party - Ramsey Muniz
Date: 9/3/1972Call Number: CD 771Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
La Raza Unida national convention - about the role of women. The first time La Raza Unida as a political party has met on a national level.Women met to discuss their roles at a National level. Ramsey Muniz, of Corpus Christi, the first Chicano to run for governor of Texas. He ran as the nominee of the Raza Unida party in 1972 at the age of 29. Ramsey Muniz speaks of the Raza Unida Platform and the importance of an independent Chicano Party, denounces the Democrats and Republicans for not helping Chicanos.
Role of Mujeres in the Party and Chicano movement Role of Mujeres in the Party and Chicano movement
Date: 9/3/1972Call Number: CD 826Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
La Raza Unida national convention: first time La Raza Unida as a political party has met on a national level, and women met to discuss their roles. Evelina Alarcon speaks about the role of women.
Gov't Network Sterilizes Workers Gov't Network Sterilizes Workers
Publisher: Committee for Puerto Rican DecolonizationFormat: ArticleCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
A continuation of an article about the history of mass sterilization in Puerto Rico but focuses on the problems with the current health system and includes the results of a 1968 study on sterilzation.
Speak Out-Taurai-Khulumani Speak Out-Taurai-Khulumani
Publisher: Women\'s Action GroupYear: 1989Volume Number: No. 7 April-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
In English, Shona and Ndebele. This issue of SPEAK OUT includes practical information on rape. We feel that much more education of the true nature of rape should be given to the public in general.