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

Marilyn Buck Reads Reading Poetry Marilyn Buck Reads Reading Poetry
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poem read by the author.
Genny Lim Reads Rescue the Word Genny Lim Reads Rescue the Word
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poem by Marilyn Buck, as read by American poet, playwright and performer Genny Lim.
David Meltzer Reads Revelation David Meltzer Reads Revelation
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
David Meltzer reads Marilyn Buck's poem for Wild Poppies. David teaches at New College of California in San Francisco.
Akwasi Evans Reads Space Akwasi Evans Reads Space
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
poet, publisher and revolutionary Akwasi Evans reads Marilyn Buck's piece for "Wild Poppies".
Uchechi Kalu Reads They Came for Me Uchechi Kalu Reads They Came for Me
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poem on repression and liberation read by the author, Uchechi Kalu. Uchechi Kalu is a Nigerian-born poet who has conducted writing workshops at schools, prisons and community organizations.
Nellie Wong Reads The Owl Nellie Wong Reads The Owl
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Nellie Wong reads Marilyn Buck's poem on Emma Goldman. works with Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party. She has visited and written to Marilyn for many years. Together, Nellie and Mitsuye Yamada created Mitsuye and Nellie for public television.
Maria Poblet Reads Thirteen Springs Maria Poblet Reads Thirteen Springs
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Queer Latina poet and tenant organizer Maria Poblet reads Marilyn Buck's piece, originally published in "Syracuse Peace Letters", "Sojourner", "States of Confinement", and "Rescue the Word".
Carlos Quiles Reads A Vieques, en solidaridad Carlos Quiles Reads A Vieques, en solidaridad
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Carlos Quiles reads a poem in solidarity with the people of Vieques by Marilyn Buck. Audio in Spanish.
Piri Thomas Reads For Vieques, in Solidarity Piri Thomas Reads For Vieques, in Solidarity
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Activist and Puerto Rican independentista Piri Thomas reads Marilyn Buck's poem for the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Marilyn Buck reads Wild Poppies Marilyn Buck reads Wild Poppies
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Autobiographical poem read by the author, Marilyn Buck.