Search Help

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

Palestine, Julian Bond on the Klan Palestine, Julian Bond on the Klan
Date: 6/13/1981Call Number: FI 135Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Heber Dreher, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Analysis of Israeli attack on Iraq nuclear installation, Palestinian struggle and poetry, situation in Lebanon ("Begin began as a terrorist," "from Begin to Reagan"). Speech by then Georgia Congressman Julian Bond on the history and vicious acts of Ku Klux Klan.
Bakke Decision Protest Bakke Decision Protest
Date: 7/1/1978Call Number: FI 137Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Demonstration, chants, speeches, and commentary by many participants protesting the US Supreme Court Bakke decision (5-4) against affirmative action. Calls in speeches for unity in struggle against racism.
Atlanta Child Murders and El Salvador Atlanta Child Murders and El Salvador
Date: 7/11/1981Call Number: FI 139Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Murders of 28 Black children in Atlanta, arrest of one Black man, later convicted of some of the killings. Many comments of people on street. Then reports on situation in El Salvador with speakers at support event in San Francisco.
James Baldwin James Baldwin
Call Number: CD 684Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
James Baldwin speaking about collective movements, what it means to be an American, early American history, the slave trade, and what it means to be an African American in the United States. Question and Answers from audience.
Interview with Stokely Carmichael - Part 1 Interview with Stokely Carmichael - Part 1
Date: 10/29/1966Call Number: CE 044Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards interviews Carmichael in the SF offices of the Movement Newspaper (Friends of SNCC). In depth about his political development, involvement with SNCC, relationship between white militants and Black Liberation Movement, demands for Black Power, and support for Vietnam's national liberation.
Interview with Stokely Carmichael - Part 2 Interview with Stokely Carmichael - Part 2
Date: 10/29/1966Call Number: CE 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards interviews Carmichael in the SF offices of the Movement Newspaper (Friends of SNCC). In depth about his political development, involvement with SNCC, relationship between white militants and Black Liberation Movement, demands for Black Power, and support for Vietnam's national liberation.
Interview with Stokely Carmichael Interview with Stokely Carmichael
Date: 10/29/1966Call Number: CD 692Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Colin Edwards interviews Carmichael in the SF offices of the Movement Newspaper (Friends of SNCC). In depth about his political development, involvement with SNCC, relationship between white militants and Black Liberation Movement, demands for Black Power, and support for Vietnam's national liberation.
SF Act Up - Boycott of Phillip Morris / Duncan Teague - Coming Out as Black SF Act Up - Boycott of Phillip Morris / Duncan Teague - Coming Out as Black
Call Number: JG/ 131AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Philip Morris' support for Conservative North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and simultaneous targeting of the Gay market for profit. Duncan Teague about being part of "closeted Black Gay scene."
Linn Washington Interview - Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal Linn Washington Interview - Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Call Number: JG/ 133Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Discussing evidence of police manipulation of the crime scene, racist jury selection, a racist judge, and proof that Mumia is innocent.
Lebensborn: Nazis Stealing Children - part 1 Lebensborn: Nazis Stealing Children - part 1
Call Number: CE 022Format: CassetteProgram: Lebensborn: Nazis Stealing ChildrenCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Radio documentary on Hitler's Lebensborn program, which kidnapped "Aryan" seeming children when Poland and Czechoslovakia etc were invaded, in order to raise a "master race."