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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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Interview with Thenjiwe Mtintso Interview with Thenjiwe Mtintso
Date: 7/16/1999Call Number: SS 022Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Thenjiwe Mtintso Deputy Secretary General of ANC; Ella Patterson=MC
Interview with Thenjiwe Mtintso Interview with Thenjiwe Mtintso
Date: 7/16/1999Call Number: SS 026Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Thenjiwe Mtintso.
Ricanstructing Vieques Ricanstructing Vieques
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 005Format: VHSProducers: Ugly planet mediaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
a punkumentary featuring the band Ricanstruction, directed by Vagabond.2/3 of the island is being destroyed by the Navy, the women and children have cancer, there is little employment. “ Another example is... you are at the beach, relaxing...one time we were at Sunbay this was in ‘87 or ‘88..we were with kids playing, and a few tanks came out of the water, various kinds of tanks..everybody was in shock, I grabbed my daughters and everybody was screaming then they went back in to the water, so if somebody would have been where they came out that person would have been dead. So it’s a mistake- there are many mistakes.”
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 051Format: VHSProducers: Artisan Entertainment, Road Movies Film Production, Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg. Directors of photography Jörg Widmer, Robby Müller, edited by Brian Johnson.Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In 1996 Ry Cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of Cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and Grammy winning album Buena Vista Social Club. This ground-breaking documentary, inspired by the album, includes appearances by legendary performers Ry & Joaquim Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzáles, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo and many other renowned Cuban Musicians. Excited by these colorful characters and their extraordinary music, Wenders traveled to Havana, Cuba to chronicle the cooperation and camaraderie between Ry Cooder and his veteran friends - now known in Cuba as "los superabuelos" (the super-grandfathers) - as well as their dazzling sell-out concerts in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall in April and July 1998.
Kiilu Nyasha Interviews Akua Njeri (formerly Fred Hampton’s wife) Kiilu Nyasha Interviews Akua Njeri (formerly Fred Hampton’s wife)
Date: 10/1/1999Call Number: PM 159Format: Cass A & BProducers: Kiilu NyashaCollection: Fred Hampton
Kiilu Nyasha interviews Akua Njeri (former wife of Fred Hampton) about his murder in December of 1969.
Interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad Interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Date: 10/5/1999Call Number: PM 169Format: Cass A & BProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
General statements by Dhoruba Bin Wahad while he visited San Francisco in 1999.
Interview with Dharuba Bin Wahad Interview with Dharuba Bin Wahad
Date: 10/5/1999Call Number: PM 170AFormat: Cass AProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
General statements by Dhoruba Bin Wahad while he visited San Francisco in 1999.
Howard Zinn: Stories Hollywood never tells Howard Zinn: Stories Hollywood never tells
Date: 4/17/1999Call Number: CD 061Format: CDProducers: AK Press, Aleternative TentaclesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Howard Zinn addresses the Taos Talking Fim Festival about how films portray history, or distort it. He talks about films he would like Hollywood to make like Shay’s Rebellion, the Irish who fought for Mexico against the US as San Patricio’s Battalion, Mother Jones, Helen Keller, etc.
Jonathan Jackson Jr, performing ‘Antinomian Chaos’ from ‘The Reductionists’ Jonathan Jackson Jr, performing ‘Antinomian Chaos’ from ‘The Reductionists’
Date: 10/3/1999Call Number: CD 067Format: CDProducers: Jonathan Jackson JrCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Jonathan Jackson Jr, performing ‘Antinomian Chaos’ from ‘The Reductionists’ with DJ Rachel
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 2/11/1999Call Number: JH 583AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Dr. Dagoberto Gutierrez, Ambientalista de El Salvador