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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.
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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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Interview with Dan Buford (Part 2) Interview with Dan Buford (Part 2)
Call Number: SS 037BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Dan Buford from "The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond," an anti-racist training to undo racism.
Interview with Dennis Bernstein Interview with Dennis Bernstein
Date: 7/11/1996Call Number: SS 040AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoProgram: KPFACollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Dennis Bernstein on the Black Movement and Black church burnings.
Interview with Derrick Bell Interview with Derrick Bell
Call Number: SS 009BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Derrick Bell on racism recorded off KPFA.
Compilation CD major speeches Compilation CD major speeches
Call Number: CD 005Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Compilation of LP to CD copies. See track details. See book: Malcolm X Speaks for transcripts of Malcolm X speeches.
Compilation CD from LPs Compilation CD from LPs
Call Number: CD 006Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Compilation CD from LPs (see track information for details)
Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Speaks at University of Chicago Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Speaks at University of Chicago
Date: 4/1/1969Call Number: PM 115 R2Format: Reel 2Collection: Fred Hampton
Same as PM 115 R1 at 7 1/2 ips Part 1 Chairman of Illinois for the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, speaks at the University of Chicago about the U.S. prison system and the fight for equal rights among people of color. Speech gives insight on Black Panther Party’s school of thought regarding education and politics, with a focus on the “Breakfast for Children Program” and the defense fund for Black Panthers needing bail, including Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Dennis Moral, Bobby Hutton, Michael “Mickey” White, and Bobby Rush. Question and answer session with the audience at the end of the tape gives depth to the Black experience at this time.
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in Detroit and Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in Detroit and Washington, DC
Date: 6/23/1963Call Number: CD 018Format: CDProducers: GordyCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in Detroit, Michigan, June 23, 1963 from Gordy 906.
Richard Dhoruba (Bin Wahad) Moore - Tape 1 of 2 Richard Dhoruba (Bin Wahad) Moore - Tape 1 of 2
Date: 6/16/1973Call Number: PM 143Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Marc SchwartzProgram: KPFACollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Part one (part two - PM 145) of a two-part interview with Richard Dharuba (Bin Wahad) Moore from prison at the House of Detention in New York. Moore speaks in defense of the Black Liberation Army and the revolutionaries who have been imprisoned or killed in the struggle. The role of the New York police department is highlighted in the killing of Frank Fields, Anthony White and others. The media portrayal of Sam Napier’s death as the result of a feud between rival Panther factions is examined. Without validating this claim Moore discusses his perception of the strengths and weaknesses of the movement on the East and West coasts. Moore criticizes the Rx Program, a “behavioral modification” prison experiment which among other things prescribes the liberal usage of methadone. He relates this to the effects of drug addiction in the black community and what the proper response should be. Throughout the interview the ideology of the Black Liberation Army, Black Liberation Army, and it’s influence on other progressive movements is elucidated.
All Power to the People All Power to the People
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 014Format: VHSProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism
Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer
Call Number: CD 038Format: CDProducers: Freedom Archives, WRBCCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Compilation of Fannie Lou Hamer audio including her singing, also a WRBC program made in 1977 to commemorate her death (no actuality)