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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.
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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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Women’s Poetry Women’s Poetry
Date: 3/1/1975Call Number: KP 231Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: WUOProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Women’s poetry written and read by women of the Weather Underground for International Women’s Day and commemorating the Townhouse explosion in 1970. Voices of Bernardine Dohrn, Cathy Wilkerson & Kathy Boudin. Poems from Sing a Battle Song especially one for Assata Shakur
A Struggle No One Can Stop A Struggle No One Can Stop
Author: Norma ValleYear: 1975Format: TranscriptCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
Norma Valle, Coordinator of the Federation of Puerto Rican Women (FMP), made a speech at a demonstration called by the United Workers Movement which was reprinted as part of an advertisement for the organizations 10-city U.S. tour.
Chief Red Fox Remembers Chief Red Fox Remembers
Date: 7/19/1975Call Number: NI 057Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Pacifica ArchivesProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
The author of “Memoirs of Chief Red Fox” is a Sioux 101 years of age who remembers the Battle of Little Big Horn and life on the North Dakota plains. Born June 11, 1870, Chief Red Fox is a rich guide through the oral history of the Sioux nation as he speaks of his youth, his uncle Chief Crazy Horse, his father Black Eagle, and about the Sioux way of life. This interview, with Bill Schechner, was conducted in 1971, a few years before the U. S. attacks on the American Indian Movement and the people of the Pine Ridge Reservation had intensified. Chief Red Fox speaks at length about the battle of Little Big Horn, known in the U.S. history books a Custer’s Last Stand. The last twenty minutes of this tape are unbearably squeaky so it may need to be baked.
Dreams and Nightmares Dreams and Nightmares
Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: V 044Format: VHSProducers: Abe OsherhoffCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The film is a montage of newsreel footage of Depression America and the Spanish Civil War itself intercut with material shot by Mr. Osheroff in contemporary Spain. A powerful account of Abe Osheroff's personal involvement with the Spanish Civil War, He was one of the roughly 3,000 American men and women who volunteered between 1937 and 1938 to fight in defense of the Spanish republic against the fascist forces of Francisco Franco and his allies, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The American volunteers, known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, were part of a larger international brigade of 40,000 people who went to Spain to try and stem the tide of European fascism in the late 1930s.
Ruben Scott/Doron Weinberg Ruben Scott/Doron Weinberg
Date: 12/2/1975Call Number: PM 146Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: BLA
Ruben Scott recounts his arrest, torture, and imprisonment in New Orleans. Attorney Doron Weinberg, speaks about repression against the Black movement, police plans to capture and frame Herman Bell, and police surveillance and torture of Ruben Scott.
Margie Adam Music, 11/75. Margie Adam Music, 11/75.
Date: 11/1/1975Call Number: KP 076Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: General materials
Music performed by Margie Adam
Cameron Bishop Interview Cameron Bishop Interview
Date: 6/5/1975Call Number: PM 197AFormat: Cass AProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Cameron Bishop was a member of SDS charged with sabotage and dynamiting power lines near Denver in 1967. He was captured after several years underground and on the FBI's 10-Most Wanted List. His conviction was ultimately reversed.
Ruben Scott Interview Ruben Scott Interview
Date: 12/2/1975Call Number: PM 202Format: Cass A & BProducers: Claude MarksCollection: BLA
In this interview Scott discusses the circumstances of his arrest. Sep. 3rd, Scott was detained and beaten, charged with two counts of assault. Originally Scott was stopped for indecent exposure but never charged. Scott was charged with assault after defending himself from an unidentified officer whom had cocked his gun in Scotts face. Bail was set at $5000 and he was out on bond the next day. 8/25 Scoot was detained after being tailed since 7/3. Scott was arrested again, where he and a couple others were repeatedly beaten and questioned about a bank robbery as well as the where about of others.
I don't sing for adulation : the music of Victor Jara - Part 1 I don't sing for adulation : the music of Victor Jara - Part 1
Date: 9/11/1975Call Number: CD 144Format: CDProducers: Frances EmleyCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Music of Victor Jara, Chilean folk musician who was murdered in the aftermath of the 1973 coup in Chile. Program Includes English translation by Joan Jara of his last song lyrics.
I don't sing for adulation : the music of Victor Jara - Part 2 I don't sing for adulation : the music of Victor Jara - Part 2
Date: 9/11/1975Call Number: CD 145Format: CDProducers: Frances EmleyCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Music of Victor Jara, Chilean folk musician who was murdered in the aftermath of the 1973 coup in Chile. Program Includes English translation by Joan Jara of his last song lyrics.