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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.
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.

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May Day Tribute May Day Tribute
Date: 5/5/1975Call Number: FI 079Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
A tribute to May Day, opening with poetry and "Hard Work" by John Handy. Poems: by Carl Sandburg, Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, David Diop, and Bertold Brecht recited by Lincoln Bergman.
Ho Chi Minh poetry Ho Chi Minh poetry
Date: 5/5/1976Call Number: NI 105Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Series of short excerpts from Ho Chi Minh's Prison Diary from a 1976 Vietnam program, read by Lincoln Bergman and Claude Marks.
Real Dragon (Oneness) Real Dragon (Oneness)
Date: 11/11/1971Call Number: RD 066Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Roland Young, Glen HowellProgram: Real Dragon/OnenessCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Part of theprogram Oneness on which The Real Dragon appeared. Begins with alphabet song sung by Tracy Young, followed by an interview with "Julie," a koto player and the koto accompanies poems by Janice Mirikitani, one on a shooting of a farmworker - "The Price of Peaches," then her well-known poem on Vietnam combined with Japanese concentration camps called “Attack the Water." (juxtaposition of 1947/1972). Closes with her poem to Nguyen Thai Binh, the Vietnamese martyr killed during attempted antiwar hijacking (he had two lemons wrapped in tin foil), "In Memory of Nguyen Thai Binh."
Poetry Music Mix Poetry Music Mix
Call Number: KP 296Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Poetry Music MixCollection: General materials
Mix of poetry and music. First poem: Sunrise, maybe Roberto Vargas; next several poems by unknown poets; Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and This Can't Be Real (Another Brother Dead), and Ain't No New Thing (with spoken intro).
Vietnam Blues Protest Poems Vietnam Blues Protest Poems
Call Number: KP 300Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Vietnam
Series of antiwar poems recited by various actors/readers. The names of the poets, some who were soldiers in Vietnam, are stated before each poem is read. These are excerpts from a book entitled Vietnam Blues. Closes with a song from a poem entitled 'The Defoliation Blues."
Poetry Poetry
Call Number: KP 331Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Xican@
Chicano Poetry in English and one in Spanish by unknown author(s), read by Bernice Ramirez. Last poem on Chicanos in Vietnam.
The Crimes of Richard Nixon The Crimes of Richard Nixon
Call Number: KP 333Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nina SerranoCollection: General materials
Poem on the crimes of Richard Milhaus Nixon, "a found Halloween Poem by the San Francisco Kid," recited by Nina Serrano.
It's 1992 And America Hasn't Discover Itself It's 1992 And America Hasn't Discover Itself
Call Number: CV 084AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
An epic poem by Gerardo Navarro performed by him and Elena Rodrigo in August 1989. Themes include the Columbus "discovery" and the encounters of different North American and Latin American cultures.
The Cultural Perspective - 1 The Cultural Perspective - 1
Call Number: FI 062Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Cultural Perspectives, featuring new book by San Francisco poet janice Mirikitani. Long reading about Ben Linder's life and work in Nicaragua before he was murdered by the Contras there. Poem about Columbus by Oakland poet Marian McDonald. Music throughout, including Danny Kalb, The Blues Project.
Poems for Native Peoples Poems for Native Peoples
Date: 10/14/1992Call Number: CV 128Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Ernesto Cardinal, Nicaragua's Minister of Culture, recites poems for Indigenous peoples of the Americas. On the occasion of 500th anniversary of Columbus invasion.