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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.

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Malcolm X Speaks Out - The CD Malcolm X Speaks Out - The CD
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CD 059Format: CDProducers: Betty ShabazzCollection: Malcolm X
Malcolm X inspired people to act, to defend themselves and to defend their rights. He was recorded under all kinds of conditions - in radio studios, in front of crowds in Harlem, by reporters in London and los Angeles - and he was always electrifying. A compilation CD and Booklet With many graphics and some text, released by Curtis Management, Indianapolis, Indiana in 1992.
Chicago Conspiracy Trial Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Date: 12/13/1973Call Number: KP 073Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Andy TruskierCollection: Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Documentary about the Chicago eight conspiracy trial, includes amazing actual courtroom recordings including the exchange between prosecutors, Judge Hoffman and Black Panther Bobby Seale - resulting in Hoffman having Seale bound and gagged, Bobby Seale tring to speak while bound and gagged, the outrage expressed by Attorney William Kunstler in Court at Bobby Seale's treatment and the refusal of the court to allow Ralph Abernathy to testify. Other interviews include Attorney Leonard Weinglass and defendant Tom Hayden.
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 6/20/1985Call Number: JH 202Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Karen parker, Human rights Lawyer on Derechos Humanos en las Naciones Unidas, testimony of Pedro from CRECE, a Central American Refugee Association in SF
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 6/27/1985Call Number: JH 203Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Refugees and Undocumented, AMES
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 7/11/1985Call Number: JH 204Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
2nd bilingual series on refugees and undocumented (bilingual), AMES a Salvadoran Women's Association, Voces de El Salvador
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 10/16/2001Call Number: JH 660AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
entrevista con Blanca Hernandez, FAMDEGUA, Asociacion de Familias de Detenidos y Desaparecidos de Guatemala, Guatemala Human Rights, Guatemala News and Information bureau (GNIB)
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 1 Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 1
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 171Format: CDProducers: NRPCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 2 Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 2
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 172Format: CDProducers: NRPCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner
Date: 3/4/2004Call Number: CD 173Format: CDProducers: Walter TurnerCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Interview with Mabel Williams by Walter Turmer for Africa Today and Hard Knock Radio.
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners. Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment. The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.