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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.
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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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Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie
Date: 1/21/1966Call Number: RFW 013Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 1966 Tricontinental resolution (50:00-53:30), Afro-North Americans, condemns assassination of Malcolm X, "and keep fighting for freedom". Radio Free Dixie intro; five instrumental songs; "The Soul Side of Rock in the Year of Fire" program narrated by Mabel Williams: analysis of the role of soul artists in rock and roll in including social issues and "longing, suffering, dehumanization, and aspirations of a people in bondage" in popular music. comparison with spirituals from times of slavery.; more music with singing: "together we stand, divided we fall", "keep on pushing" "children are you ready" "people get ready" "we're gonna make it" "king of the road", "i wanna go home"; (31:20) RFW commentary on comic operas on civil rights struggles as most offensive and dehumanizing, bittersweet victory of Mr. Weaver (an African-American man) being appointed to White House cabinet "while another was denied his right to take his seat as the duly elected senator of Georgia", tokenism used to lull oppressed masses to sleep, "freedom now or death"; Resolution on the Human Rights of Afro-Americans in the USA adopted by Tri-Continental Conference in Havana Cuba Jan 3-12, 1966.
Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 014Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Blues, social conditions 1890-1940s, made in UK, artists anonymous, Blues in the Mississippi Night proudly dedicated to the gallant freedom fighters resolutely struggling against US racism and imperialism
Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 015Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Blues in the Mississippi Night, part 1 - all material on this CD is the same as the material on RFW 014
Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 016Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Blues in the Mississippi Night, part 2 - chain gang songs, stories from former chain gang workers, some material repeated on RFW 014
Message to the Grassroots Message to the Grassroots
Call Number: RFW 017Format: CDCollection: Malcolm X
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Malcolm X speaks to the grassroots - "america has a very serious problem… america's problem is us. The only reason she has a problem is because she doesn't want us here." how white people from different backgrounds coalesced in a way that people of color need to. Differences between the Black revolution and the Negro revolution. Source of all revolutions has been the quest for land. "there's no such thing as a non-violent revolution." definition of Black nationalism. Persisting roles of "the house negro" and "the field negro" in current revolutionary activity and society in general. nothing in the Koran teaches peace. national Black leaders becoming fallen idols - example of MLK and SNCC failure to desegregate Albany, Georgia - rise of local, grassroots leaders taking power on smaller scale.
Radio Free Dixie Radio Free Dixie
Call Number: RFW 018Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Includes an editorial from 7/8/64 Washington Afro-American about the murder of educator and civil rights activist, Lemuel Penn.
RF Williams at Great hall of the People RF Williams at Great hall of the People
Date: 8/8/1966Call Number: RFW 019Format: CDCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! RFW speech at Great Hall of the People on third anniversary of Mao's statement: “Black power means that Black men want to have some control over their own lives. To have a respected voice in public affairs that affect them.” “Black power is a dissident force challenging the racist white power structure that is so heinously exterminating the people of Vietnam and threatening the world with nuclear destruction.” Also covers: Other US liberation struggles (American Indian, Puerto Rican); International Solidarity Critique of LBJ, RFK. “Black nationalism is a survival reaction to white nationalism” opposition to Vietnam War and rejecting the Black role in fighting it. US as fascist nation.
Ordeal of Change Ordeal of Change
Call Number: RFW 020Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Ordeal of Change Reading. Sound very poor.
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 1 Mabel Williams Interview, Part 1
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 021Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 1 of 3 CDs, addresses: making change; effects of segregation; RFW's upbringing; Williams family home life in Monroe; making change part 2; things can change - surprises; international allies; first trip to Cuba; early relationship to Malcolm X; support groups in New York City; RFW's military training; role in the NAACP and the legal system; position on self-defense; the rifle club; publishing The Crusader; dialogue with Malcolm X; alleged kidnapping in Monroe; decision to leave Monroe; support in NYC after leaving Monroe; government support of KKK in Monroe; Mabel William's role and specific activities; different kinds of targeting by the government.(50:11)
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 2 Mabel Williams Interview, Part 2
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 022Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! 2 of 3 CDs, addresses: conflicting relationship with the NAACP; takeover of NAACP rally in Harlem and crowd booing speakers; activist spirit of the time after leaving Monroe; sense of internationalism; visit from Japanese woman student and professor; alleged kidnapping part 2; decision to leave Monroe; decision to leave New York; decision to leave Canada; decision to go to Cuba; getting to Cuba; reception in Cuba; production of The Crusader in Exile; birth of Radio Free Dixie; response to the events in Birmingham; political struggles in Cuba; decision to leave Cuba; conflict with US Communist Party in Cuba; previous visits to China; political understanding of differences between communism in China and Soviet Union; RFW interviewed by Czech theorist; RFW interviewed and called a Trotskyite (66:28)