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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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Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: JG/ 117Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Explains his experience resisting racism and white supremacy in Depression-era, Jim Crow and poverty stricken South in the 1930s. He talks about the class construction and expansion the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the growth of antiracist organization, including his personal investigation of Klan activity.
From Greensboro to Zimbabwe From Greensboro to Zimbabwe
Date: 11/22/1980Call Number: FI 122Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
On the injustice of the not guilty verdict in Greensboro after the murders of demonstrators there earlier by Klan and Nazis, in 1979. Detailed interview on victory and current situation in Zimbabwe.
Say it Plain Say it Plain
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 737Format: DVDProducers: Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury SmithCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Speeches by: Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey , Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, and Julian Bond.
Black Panthers - Huey! Black Panthers - Huey!
Date: 2/17/1968Call Number: CD 659Format: DVDProducers: Agnes VardaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Free Huey rally held on February 17th, 1968 (Newton's birthday). Over 5,000 people attended - speakers including Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, James Forman, Bob Avakian, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown and Ron Dellums. The speakers outline the Party's platform goals, their strategies for freeing Newton from jail and more.
Huey P Newton - Prelude to Revolution Huey P Newton - Prelude to Revolution
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: V 368Format: DVDProducers: John EvansCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Filmed prison interviews with Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, imprisoned in 1967 for the manslaughter of a white police officer in Oakland. Newton was freed in 1971 when a California Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. Newton elaborates on his revolutionary politics the Ten Point Platform - called for, Black community self-determination, full employment, decent housing for Black people, an end to police brutality, and "an immediate end to all wars of aggression," meaning the Vietnam War.
Black Power and anti-imperialism - 1 of 3 Black Power and anti-imperialism - 1 of 3
Date: 11/1/1967Call Number: CD 666Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion and debate of anti-war movement, Black power and Black liberation. Public Forum moderated by psychologist and gay pastor Jim Sandmire with Peter Lewis representing the new left and Black Panthers Don Bryant and Sam Napier. Topics include is revolution realistic, race war in the US and international revolutionary movements.
Black Power and anti-imperialism - 2 of 3 Black Power and anti-imperialism - 2 of 3
Date: 11/1/1967Call Number: CD 667Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion and debate of anti-war movement, Black power and Black liberation. Public Forum moderated by psychologist and gay pastor Jim Sandmire with Peter Lewis representing the new left and Black Panthers Don Bryant and Sam Napier. Topics include is revolution realistic, race war in the US and international revolutionary movements.
Black Power and anti-imperialism - 3 of 3 Black Power and anti-imperialism - 3 of 3
Date: 11/1/1967Call Number: CD 668Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion and debate of anti-war movement, Black power and Black liberation. Public Forum moderated by psychologist and gay pastor Jim Sandmire with Peter Lewis representing the new left and Black Panthers Don Bryant and Sam Napier. Topics include is revolution realistic, race war in the US and international revolutionary movements.
Public Enemy - Reflections of the Black Panthers Public Enemy - Reflections of the Black Panthers
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: CD 669Format: DVDProducers: Jens MeurerCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Four former members of the Black Panther Party discuss revolutionaries after the revolution. Focuses on the personal lives, past and present. Former political prisoner and current playwright Jamal Joseph; musician and record producer, Nile Rodgers (Chic, Sister Sledge); law professor and lecturer Kathleen Cleaver; and the last surviving founding member, Bobby Seale. What were the Party's long-term effects on African Americans and their status in society? How did the Black Panther Party impact popular culture? How did these leaders' involvement personally affect them - their hopes, their dreams? And after tumultuous years of being viewed by the FBI as "the greatest internal threat to the nation," how does America perceive them today? Interlaces archival protest footage with recent interviews.
Zimbabwe, Greensboro, Stonewall Zimbabwe, Greensboro, Stonewall
Date: 4/19/1981Call Number: FI 130Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Zimbabwe representative to UN speaks on victory and goal of a non-racial society. Anti-racist demonstration and march in San Francisco with speech by Nelson Johnson on murder of anti-Klan activists in Greensboro North Carolina, also Stonewall Coalition liberation. Excellent poem against Nazis speaking at SF State.