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

Henry Threadgill KPFA live Henry Threadgill KPFA live
Date: 6/11/1989Call Number: AS 044Format: Cass A & BProducers: Art SatoProgram: In Your EarCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Sun Ra Interview Sun Ra Interview
Date: 4/8/1989Call Number: AS 043Format: Cass A & BProducers: Art SatoProgram: In Your EarCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Movement Support Network News Movement Support Network News
Publisher: MSN News and National Lawyers GuildYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 5-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Grand Jury
Contents: The Meaning of Webster, Spies in the Stacks, New Release Under FOIA, An Orphan of America, Mississippi Revisited, Briefs, A Tale of Two Trials, Blacks and Latino Alumni Charge Race Discrimination by Baruch College, Dhoruba Moore 18 Years a Political Prisoner, Freedom Now Testifies in Geneva, Randall Struggle Continues, CCR Voting Rights Projects Grows, Wells Fargo Update, more.
Chicano Moritorium #2 Chicano Moritorium #2
Date: 8/29/1989Call Number: CV 323BFormat: Cass BProgram: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
In both English and Spanish, primarily music. Speech in English by singer; focuses on struggle of Latino/Chicano/Indigenous peoples and their children, along with condemning war in El Salvador
Margaret Walker at the Schomberg Center for Black Research Margaret Walker at the Schomberg Center for Black Research
Date: 11/8/1989Call Number: KP 534Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: General materials
Margaret Walker recounts her life and her poetry. Towards the end of the tape Margaret reads a number of her poems. She discusses influences, the role conditions in the Southern United States played in her writing and her goals in her poetry. Tape 1 of 2?
The Cultural Perspective The Cultural Perspective
Date: 9/24/1989Call Number: FI 282Format: CassetteProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
New details of the assassination of Ben Linder in Nicaragua (4/28/1987) followed by in-depth Spanish-English interview and music with Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy, who is in Oakland to play with his Grupo Mancotal at the Redwood Music Festival.
The Link The Link
Publisher: Americans for Middle East UnderstandingYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 22-2 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Americans for Middle East Understanding
Cover Story: U.S Aid to Israel
LIBERTAD: Special Supplement LIBERTAD: Special Supplement
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1989Volume Number: November/DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Libertad
Bangs and Whimpers. Speech delivered by Judge Bruce Wright on the sixth anniversary of the Marion Lockdown.
The Real Dragon The Real Dragon
Publisher: Real Dragon Project/Prarie FireYear: 1989Format: PeriodicalCollection: Real Dragon Prison Project
Excerpts and contributions credited to: Marilyn Buck; Frederick Douglas; Rafael Cancel Miranda; Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa (aka D. Rice); Cherrie Moraga; Carmen Levasseur; Manlio Agueta; Ivan Silen; Langston Hughes; A.N.C. Kumalo; Elizabeth Marino; Mahmoud Darwish; Ch'iu Chin; Muriel Rukeyset; Rene Castillo; roberto Armijo; Linton Kwesi Johnson; Comrade Rickke Green; Sonia Sanchez; Kuwasi Balagoon; Mangaliso Sobukwe; Harriet J. Melrose; Judy Grahm; Lisa Rudman; Ray Durem; Sterling A. Brown; Muhammad Al-Fituri; Juan Gelman
Nazi Skins Out! Nazi Skins Out!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1989Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
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