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.

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

Clark Kerr- Multi-versity Clark Kerr- Multi-versity
Call Number: CE 704Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Colin Edwards interviews the president of UC Berkeley Clark Kerr about his idea of multi-versity. Multi-versity basically describes the changing role of the university in society and Clark Kerr’s desire to further establish links to business and industry, expand the bureaucracy of the university and lessen its emphasize on abstract ideas and exploration and increase its role as a knowledge factory. Within the interview, Kerr discusses the role of professors, undergraduates vs. graduate students, the role of research, the role of universities in society, the role of truth and morality at the university, the autonomy of the university, educational reform on campus and the role of the president as the mediator in the multi-versity.
Clark Kerr Excerpts Clark Kerr Excerpts
Call Number: CE 705Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
This recording contains excerpts from Clark Kerr taken from interviews and speeches. Most of the focus is on the FSM, his concept of the mulit-versity and the state of universities in society. *Tape should be played sparingly to ensure preservation
Several brief items and interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Several brief items and interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Call Number: CE 715Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Six segments. 1. Interview with Heather Monoon, a Canadian student who participated in the Sproul Hall sit-in and describes her experiences in detail, including student-organized classes, study halls and film screenings in the occupied building. 2. Late News Report (January 3/4, 1965) for Countdown and National News on the removal of Chancellor Edward Strong and the appointment of Martin Meyerson. 3. Interview with Mario Savio, touches on his family’s reactions and potential legal consequences. 4. January 4, 1965 report for National News, with comparison to the Toronto University student revolt of 1894. 5. Commentary on background to student revolt, ending with reference to the passage of Prop. 14. 6. Commentary for a documentary on “Concepts of a University,” exploring Clark Kerr’s idea of the “multi-versity” and framing conflict over the nature of a university at the root of unrest on the Berkeley campus.