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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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1994 UFW Convention/Fresno, Ca 1994 UFW Convention/Fresno, Ca
Call Number: CV 328Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cassette tape of 1994 UFW Convention. Mix of English and Spanish spoken; in addition to political speech, includes speaker discussing visit to Aztec ruins with Cesar Chavez. Also includes Chris Evan, in charge of merchandise, and Anthony Chavez, in charge of Farm Worker radio stations
Latino Summit Conclusion Latino Summit Conclusion
Call Number: CV 331Format: Cass A & BProgram: Latino SummitCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
From the 1990's, Juan Gutierrez of One Stop Immigration Center initial speaker. Primarily in Spanish
Emilio Huerta on UFW Emilio Huerta on UFW
Call Number: CV 332Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Emilio Huerta talks about the UFW, grape boycott, Dolores Huerta's beating, police accountability. Also includes interview with other speakers discussing police accountability, basic rights of speech, assembly, demonstration, chances of reform within SFPD
Moritorium LA 8/26/95 Moritorium LA 8/26/95
Date: 8/26/1995Call Number: CV 333Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
25th Chicano Moritorium. Variety of speakers and topics related thereto. Ruben Salazar, access to education, lawsuit against MTA in Los Angeles, among issues discussed. Portions in Spanish
Moritorium #3 8/29/87 Moritorium #3 8/29/87
Date: 8/29/1987Call Number: CV 334Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Primarily in Spanish; discusses boycott against Dole Foods and related issues
The Mission: Freedom Is A Constant Struggle The Mission: Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Date: 6/14/1980Call Number: FI 286Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Focuses on youth and police repression in the Mission district community through an interview with Fernando Cosia of the Mission Community Alliance and youth actuality.
Campaign to free Jose Luis Avina packet Campaign to free Jose Luis Avina packet
Publisher: Campaign to free Jose Luis Avina; Bario Defense Committee; Anarchist Black Cross Foundation; Format: CompilationCollection: Raza Prison
Reproductions. Compilation of information from various sources
Joan Baez at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz Joan Baez at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz
Producers: Frances EmleyCollection: Latin@
Activist folksinger Joan Baez sings at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz, a farm worker active in the United Farm-worker\'s Union who was killed on a picket line by a strikebreaker\'s bullet.
Crossroads: Contemporary Political Analysis & Left Dialogue Crossroads: Contemporary Political Analysis & Left Dialogue
Publisher: CrossroadsYear: 1993Volume Number: No. 31 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
A Salute to Latinas in the Arts; Inside this Issue: "For an Art of Resistance"; Feminist Visions; "We're Still Invisible"; Mexican Themes in Dance, Film, Teatro; Artist Proocateur; Turning It Around; Cry from the Borderlands; Monica Palacios: "Latin Lezbo Comic".
Dolores Huerta Dolores Huerta
Publisher: The Freedom ArchivesFormat: mp3Collection: Latin@
Dolores Huerta speaks on the connection between those who oppose farm-workers right and those in the military-industrial complex.