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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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Under the Radar Under the Radar
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 259Format: DVDProducers: J Plunky BranchCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary introducing viewers to the history of Afro-Cuban music and samples Cuba's current music scene. The film's producer/director, jazz saxophonist J. Plunky Branch, documents and highlights the musical collaborations of Afro-Cuban musicians and rappers with noted Afro-American jazz musicians and hip-hop producer Sir Fire. Branch, Sir Fire, and executive producer Alvin Bailey traveled to Havana, Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba, to record a variety of Afro-Cuban artists performing and sharing music, history, and culture; and interacting Under the Radar.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 11/6/1973Call Number: NI 005 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Lincoln Bergman report from Havana, annual ceremony of throwing flowers into the sea in memory of Camilo Cienfuegos. Continuing fascist repression in Chile, mobilization of resistance forces beginning. Report on an interview with Miguel Enriques, leader of the MIR—“those who make only half a revolution, dig their own graves.” Roundup of revolutionary activities throughout Latin America—Uruguay (the Tupamaros)—Argentina—Brazilian military maneuvers, guerrillas seize police station—Peru seeks nationalization of US Cerro de Pasco corporation—Latin American energy ministers meet (Venezuela considers nationalization)—wave of kidnappings in Mexico, reactionary violence in Mexico—USIA paid to stop the showing of Sacco and Vanzetti film in Mexico. Panama, Torrijos—United Fruit/Xerox/Chase Manhattan cultural penetrations. Massive student strikes in Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus shut down, amidst intensified campaign to free the nationalist Puerto Rican political prisoners—strikes in Colombia, offensive against guerrillas failing—reports on the horrible blood business in many Latin American countries.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/13/1974Call Number: NI 015Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett with Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious Than...Collection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of international, Asia and Latin America, report from Havana, BLA trials in NY, Wounded Knee trial report, and some local news.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/16/1974Call Number: NI 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of news, including Lincoln Bergman report from Havana, Africa liberation movements, SLA, Latin America, California prisons
Nothing is More Precious Than Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 7/26/1974Call Number: NI 037Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Special program to mark the anniversary of the July 26, 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, which sparked the Cuban Revolution.
Nothing is More Precious Than Nothing is More Precious Than
Date: 9/7/1974Call Number: NI 038Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, with Mark Schwartz, Nancy Kurshan, and Mark LeneelProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
First program after KPFA strike. Opens with Ho Chi Minh speaking in English, roundup of news from Vietnam, Inez Garcia case with actuality of her speaking, prison movement with George Jackson actuality, Latin America, Puerto Rico, and Africa, with actuality of Amilcar Cabral.
Che Guevara - Radio Rebelde - Fidel Castro Che Guevara - Radio Rebelde - Fidel Castro
Date: 12/18/1963Call Number: CD 554Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Radio Rebelde (in Spanish) broadcast by radio Havana, Cuba in 1971 - towards the end is the first victory message by Fidel castro over Radio Rebelde A speech by Fidel Castro (date unknown)
Dame la Mano Dame la Mano
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 290Format: VHSProducers: Heddy HonigmannCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On Sunday nights, Union City's La Esquina Habanera restaurant is the place to be for New Jersey's Cuban community. Here, professional and amateur dancers gyrate to the sensual and spirited rhythms of the rumba, a dance veteran practitioners credit for everything from curing cancer to sexual vigor in old age. Award-winning Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann listens to the stories of several Cuban exiles in this joyous cinematic celebration of Latin life, music, and dance that culminates with an exuberant nightclub finale.
Frente inserts/Elsa Knight Thompson interview Frente inserts/Elsa Knight Thompson interview
Date: 2/8/1972Call Number: KP 240AFormat: Cass AProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: General materials
Four inserts used by Lincoln Bergman in presentation to Front of Cultural Workers conference in San Francisco. Includes two recordings of Radio Rebelde, one of Radio Havana, and one of Voice of Vietnam. Two songs of Paul Robeson.
Fidel Castro speech on Chile Fidel Castro speech on Chile
Date: 11/1/1975Call Number: KP 241Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Cuba
Most of a speech by Fidel Castro not long after Chilean coup. On Side B, before speech continues, are several statements by US airmen captured in Vietnam and a Vietnam interview with a GI who took asylum in Sweden.