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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.

Search Results

Inside the CIA, On Company Business, Part 2-Assassination Inside the CIA, On Company Business, Part 2-Assassination
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: V 085Format: VHSProducers: Howard Dratch, Allan FrancovichCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Testimony of former agents, archival footage, first-hand accounts of victims of CIA-backed torture, and other interviews reveal CIA’s mode of operation as well as its goals in Latin America. Goes into depth on subversion of labor movements. Also intervention in Brazil in particular as well as Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Mentions Chile and others targets of CIA.
Paul Robeson sings Paul Robeson sings
Call Number: KP 057Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson, sings “Joe Hill”.
Militant Workers in Detroit, 8/27/73 Militant Workers in Detroit, 8/27/73
Date: 8/27/1973Call Number: KP 058Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: General materials
Poor conditions in Detroit auto factory’s result in strikes against the Chrysler Corporation , among others. Jefferson Ave. and the Detroit Forge Plant were two sites of strike activity. Jim Jacobs explains some of the reasoning behind the strikes, and relates the issue to black equality as well.
Malcolm X: Militant Labor Forum, “Prospects for Freedom in 1965.” Malcolm X: Militant Labor Forum, “Prospects for Freedom in 1965.”
Date: 1/7/1965Call Number: KP 062Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Malcolm X
Malcolm X speaks at a Militant Labor Forum and discusses the difference between the Black Muslim movement and the Black Nationalist group, the difference between moral and political protest, the labeling of extremists as monsters and also looks to examples of black freedom fighters in Africa as models for African Americans demanding equal rights. There are editorialized interruptions from the DJ.
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 3/26/1992Call Number: JH 353AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Tiin Tan, Abuso a trabajadores Mexicanos, Javier Montoya cantante y compositor Colmbiano-Venozolano; Alma Herrera; Asociacion latina de Trabajadores, Day labor Program
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 11/5/1992Call Number: JH 385AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Danzon dedicado al Encuentro del Canto Popular; Noticia de El Salvador; Danzon; Noticia de columbia; entrevista telefonica jose Samperio de los Trabajadores Generales S.F.(day laborers)
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 11/12/1992Call Number: JH 386AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Comite de trabajadores generales Jose Samperio; Luis Medina, Instituto laboral de la raza; Juan Lopez Zanabria-trabajador inmigrante
David Alfaro Siqueiros: Voz Viva de Mexico - Part 1 David Alfaro Siqueiros: Voz Viva de Mexico - Part 1
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: CD 147Format: CDProducers: Universidad Nacional Autonomia de MexicoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
David Siquieros habla del nuevo realismo mexicano. Voz del autor, 1967.
David Alfaro Siqueiros: Voz Viva de Mexico, Part 2 David Alfaro Siqueiros: Voz Viva de Mexico, Part 2
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: CD 148Format: CDProducers: Universidad Nacional Autonomia de MexicoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
David Siquieros habla del nuevo realismo mexicano. Voz del autor, 1967. En espanol. Part 2
Diego Rivera on Record (In Spanish) Diego Rivera on Record (In Spanish)
Date: 1/1/1958Call Number: CD 149Format: DATProducers: Caedmon RecordsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Diego Rivera, interviewed in the studio of his home in San Angel in 1958. Cars, trucks and dogs all make their debut in this recording as well as Rivera’s artistic and political convisctions. he comments on Giotto, Picasso and marx, and criticizes American political figures (in Spanish).