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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.

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Sam Day from NukeWatch Interview Sam Day from NukeWatch Interview
Date: 10/24/1989Call Number: JG/ 134BFormat: Cass BProducers: The ProgressiveProgram: Second Opinion with Erwin KnollsCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Director of Nukewatch and activist against nuclear technology speaking about his recent release from a six-month prison term for trespassing on a nuclear missile site. Interview by Erwin Knolls.
Control Unit Prisons Control Unit Prisons
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: CD 696Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
CBS News Report about control units, Demonstration protesting control unit, Chicago event with Judge Bruce Wright and Jose Lopez about campaign to shut down control units.
Kwame Ture - Northwestern University Kwame Ture - Northwestern University
Date: 2/16/1989Call Number: V 374Format: VHSCollection: Kwame Ture
Speaking about the civil rights (human rights) movement and the Black Liberation struggle.
Sam Nujoma in Cuba Sam Nujoma in Cuba
Date: 1/4/1989Call Number: KP 446Format: CassetteProducers: Karen WaldProgram: Sam Nujoma in CubaCollection: African liberation movements
Press conference in Havana with opening statement and questions of Sam Nujoma, at that time President of SWAPO, soon to be the first President of Namibia.
Dolores Huerta - One Year Later Dolores Huerta - One Year Later
Date: 9/14/1989Call Number: CV 236Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
John Crew, of the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the case of a San Francisco police officer beating Dolores Huerta at an anti-Bush demonstration. Crew also explains why the Office of Citizens Complaints is not fulfilling its duty as a police watchdog agency.
SF Police Commission: Huerta Decision SF Police Commission: Huerta Decision
Date: 3/8/1989Call Number: CV 243Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
The SF Police Commission decides not to discipline the officer who beat Dolores Huerta. Interviews with the ACLU, Police Chief Frank Jordan, and Emilio Huerta.
United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway- 1 United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway- 1
Date: 9/20/1989Call Number: CV 247Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez, along with other organizers and community leaders demand that Safeway stop selling grapes grown with pesticides. Chavez explains that the pesticides are contributing to cancer among farm workers.
United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway - 2 United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway - 2
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: CV 248AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez, along with other organizers and community leaders rally and demand that Safeway stop selling grapes grown with pesticides. Chavez explains that the pesticides are contributing to cancer among farm workers.
Police Assault Dolores Huerta Police Assault Dolores Huerta
Date: 12/20/1989Call Number: CV 255Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Report on SFPD's beating of Dolores Huerta, SFPD's crowd control policy, and who decides how to discipline police.
Anti-Nazi Demonstrations Anti-Nazi Demonstrations
Date: 4/24/1989Call Number: V 438Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Populist Party planned to meet at the public library in Hayward in honor of Hitler's 100th birthday. Anti-racist organizations organized a protest - NAACP, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, and the Coalition to Stop Nazis and Skinheads. The 'celebration' is canceled.