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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.
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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Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners. Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment. The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #1 Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #1
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 073Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. Diedra McCalaugh (sp?) is a feminist singer/songwriter from Berkeley and performs songs from her album, “Everyday Heroes and Heroines”.
Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #2 Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #2
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 074Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. On this tape many of the speakers talk about the need for increasing the public lesbian community through demonstrations and gatherings. This recording follows JG/LS 073.
Shasta Woman: The Story of Norma Jean Croy Shasta Woman: The Story of Norma Jean Croy
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 572Format: VHSProducers: Bo BrownCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About imprisonment of Native American woman for murder of a police officer. Chronicles events of the night of the murder and ensuing legal proceedings. Norma Jean Croy was released in 1997 on the basis of constitutional violations in her original trial and inadequate legal counsel. Includes extensive interview with Yvonne (Wanrow) Swan.