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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.
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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Estella Habal One (EH) Estella Habal One (EH)
Date: 8/2/1997Call Number: IH 009AFormat: Cass AProducers: KNBRCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Recording of a KNBR radiobroadcast interview of Estella Habal, then vice president of the Manilatown Heritage foundation, and Linda Wang, then chair of the International Hotel Citizens Advisory Committee and president of the Kearny Street Housing Corporation. Radio host Kimmy Park Lai interviews both Estella and Linda Wang on past and present issues relating to the International Hotel. Emphasized in the interview are the experiences of Estella during the night of the eviction, the effect the International Hotel incident had on issues such as low income housing or housing for the elderly, community versus private development and the change of views on urban planning from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Both Estella and Linda also discuss the development plans of the I-Hotel site such as the inclusion Manilatown museum and cultural center, the low income housing units for the elderly and an elementary school. Estella also announces the upcoming events for that week as part of the 20th commemoration of the International Hotel eviction. Side B of tape has no recording.
WILD 94.9 Aug.03 1997 EH [Estella Habal] interview IH week (EH) WILD 94.9 Aug.03 1997 EH [Estella Habal] interview IH week (EH)
Date: 8/3/1997Call Number: IH 010Format: CassetteProducers: WILD 94.9Collection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
A WILD 94.9 radiobroadcast of Estella Habal appearing on the station's Youth Radio program hosted by Alex Savage and Noah Nelson. In the brief interview, Estella Habal gives a brief description of the event or march that took place on August 3, 1997 as part of the 20th commemoration of the International Hotel eviction. She also describes the significance of the International Hotel site and the current development plans for the site such as the inclusion of the Manilatown museum and cultural center. Estella concludes the interview with an announcement of events that are part of the 20th commemoration. Side B has no recordings.