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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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Abortion for Survival Abortion for Survival
Date: 7/23/1989Call Number: V 240Format: VHSProducers: Fund for Feminist MajorityCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Martin Agronsky narrates a Pro-Choice documentary produced by the Fund for Feminist Majority. The Documentary shows a first trimester abortion, outlines the history of victims of anti-abortion laws, and interviews representatives from Population Crisis Committee, The School of Public Health at Columbia University, the American Psychiatric Association, and Planned Parenthood. The tape ends with a panel discussion mediated by Agronski with Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood, Eleanor Smeal, former president of National Organization for Women, Republican Congressman, Bob Dornan of California, and Nellie Gray from March for Life.
Interview with Lolita Lebron Interview with Lolita Lebron
Call Number: LA 165Format: CassetteCollection: Puerto Rico
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
Racism in Boston and San Francisco in 1980 Racism in Boston and San Francisco in 1980
Date: 1/1/1980Call Number: LA 166AFormat: Cass ACollection: Black Liberation
A woman describes her experiences with racism growing up in Boston. She discusses her own racial-consciousness awakening during the integration busing crisis of the mid-1970s. She compares the racism in Boston with the more subtle racism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other topics include the lack of real response of various local politicians concerning racism, a string of serial killer murders of black women in 1979 in Boston and Carter's recent defeat over Ted Kennedy in the Democratic Presidential Primary.
Televison News Response to East Bay Serial Rapist of 1997 Televison News Response to East Bay Serial Rapist of 1997
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 260Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Clips of the local news coverage of the East Bay serial-rapist case of 1997 in which 12 women were raped. Clips included come from KTVU, KPIX and KGO San Francisco Bay Area television stations. The clips highlight the grassroots response to the serial rapist, including scenes of the "Fear Is Not the Answer" rally held at Macarthur BART station and local activists pleading for a non-racist response from the public to the rapes. Small blurbs from the mayors of Oakland and Berkeley (Elihu Harris and Shirley Dean, respectively) and Oakland policeman Captain Pete Dunbar are also included.
Video of Conservative Feminism and Police Abuse Public Access Television Show Footage. Video of Conservative Feminism and Police Abuse Public Access Television Show Footage.
Call Number: V 262Format: VHSProgram: HOMECollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Begins with a segment from the late 1980s ABC mid-morning talk show Home. In this segment, Dr. Toni Grant discusses supposed intrinsic and immutable difference between men and women and declares that women should be mainly valued for their "Madonna Virtues" and rigid notions of "self respect". At 00:17:15 the video cuts to public access television show on "Police Abuse: Myth or Reality?" Guests include Don Wheeldon, Don Jackson of the NAACP and attorney John C. Burton.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 4/6/1974Call Number: NI 022Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, Susan MatrossProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of local news, report on SLA, then national and international, with emphasis on women and women's liberation and report on Wounded Knee and NY 5 trials.
Amilcar Cabral Amilcar Cabral
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: KP 044 R2Format: Reel 2Collection: African liberation movements
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source." Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Amilcar Cabral, Part 1 Amilcar Cabral, Part 1
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: CD 550Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source." Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Amilcar Cabral, Part 2 Amilcar Cabral, Part 2
Date: 10/20/1972Call Number: CD 551Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source." Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 4/13/1974Call Number: NI 024Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrrett, Mark Schwartz, Nina Serrana, Sue Matross, Kathy StineProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Continuing coverage of Symbionese Liberation Army and related trials, Wounded Knee trials, California prisons, and many stories on women's movement and issues.