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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.
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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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Marlon Brando Interview Marlon Brando Interview
Date: 4/1/1968Call Number: CE 059Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Speaks about America's racial crisis, racism and discrimination and why people have a right to self-defense. (only 3 minutes recorded on the street)
Interview with Huey Newton Interview with Huey Newton
Date: 9/1/1968Call Number: CE 060Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Denny SmithsonCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Conducted in the Fall of 1968.
Fuck tha Police Fuck tha Police
About police brutality against African Americans. Images of police violence. Rap about police brutality.
Huey Newton - Peace in the community Huey Newton - Peace in the community
Call Number: CE 064Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Brief statement that the Black Panthers will help "keep law and order" in the community.
Selma Support Rally - San Francisco Selma Support Rally - San Francisco
Date: 3/10/1965Call Number: CE 065Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
St Patrick's Day rally at the Federal Building to "Stop the Bloodbath" in Selma. This period saw numerous rallies in solidarity with marches in Alabama as well as demonstrations sending people to participate.
King Reports - April 1968 King Reports - April 1968
Date: 4/5/1968Call Number: CE 066Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
1 - Marlon Brando speaks about America's racial crisis, racism and discrimination and why people have a right to self-defense. 2 - Colin commentary on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr utilizing portions of King's visit to Santa Rita Jail in January 14, 1968 where he supported Joan Baez and draft resisters. 3 - Bay Area Black communities respond to the assassination of Martin Luther King. Colin describes demonstrators in Oakland, San Francisco & Berkeley in the streets and attacks on businesses - also white supremacists driving through the Black community in celebration of the murder. Culminates in a SF City Hall demonstration of over 5000 people including speech of Carlton Goodlett of the Sun Reporter, a recently returned Black Vietnam vet and a high school student.
Bobby Hutton Memorial - part 1 Bobby Hutton Memorial - part 1
Date: 4/12/1968Call Number: CE 067Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Eldridge Cleaver's sister and others interviewed outside the Ephesian Church of God in Berkeley about the police murder of Bobby Hutton. Rally and memorial follows at Merritt Park including speeches by Black Panthers Kathleen Cleaver and Bobby Seale, Marlon Brando, Ron Dellums, and James Forman of SNCC.
Bobby Hutton Memorial - part 2 Bobby Hutton Memorial - part 2
Date: 4/12/1968Call Number: CE 068Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Eldridge Cleaver's sister and others interviewed outside the Ephesian Church of God in Berkeley about the police murder of Bobby Hutton. Rally and memorial follows at Merritt Park including speeches by Black Panthers Kathleen Cleaver and Bobby Seale, Marlon Brando, Ron Dellums, and James Forman of SNCC.
Martin Luther King - America's Chief Moral Dilemma Martin Luther King - America's Chief Moral Dilemma
Date: 5/17/1967Call Number: CE 069Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Speech given at UC Berkeley on the steps of Sproul Hall. King declares that a revolution of values is needed in order to eliminate America's three great evils of racism, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Question period follows speech.
Johnie Scott at the Stanford Black Power Conference Johnie Scott at the Stanford Black Power Conference
Date: 10/1/1966Call Number: CE 070Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Los Angeles poet and Co-Founder of the Watts Writers Workshop speaks at this 1966 conference.