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.

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Ho Chi Ming: An Appreciation Ho Chi Ming: An Appreciation
Author: Wilfred BurchettPublisher: The GuardianYear: 1972Format: MonographCollection: Vietnam
Published in Association with The Wilfred Burchett Fund, a biography of Ho Chi Minh.
Newsletter Union of Vietnamese in The U.S. Newsletter Union of Vietnamese in The U.S.
Publisher: The Union of Vietnamese in The U.S.Year: 1974Volume Number: No. 13-14/ Sep. - Oct.Format: PeriodicalCollection: Vietnam
Contents include Voice of the Third Political Front, Vietnam News in Brief, Anti-Thieu Movements, Seven Vietnamese Students Face Deportation to Saigon.
South Vietnam In Struggle South Vietnam In Struggle
Publisher: South Viet Nam National Front for LiberationYear: 1973Volume Number: No. 185Format: PeriodicalCollection: Vietnam
Central organ of the South Vietnam National Front for Liberation
Demonstrate! Free the 200,000 Political Prisoners in South Viet-Nam-San Francisco Demonstrate! Free the 200,000 Political Prisoners in South Viet-Nam-San Francisco
Publisher: The U.S. Committee to Free Political Prisoners in South Viet-NameFormat: FlyerCollection: Vietnam
Flyer for march and rally against U.S. aid to Saigon regime and the freeing of political prisoners in South Viet-Nam. Manifesto is printed on the back of the graphic.
The 83rd Birthday of President Ho-Chi-Minh Celebration- San Francisco The 83rd Birthday of President Ho-Chi-Minh Celebration- San Francisco
Publisher: The Union of Vietnamese in The U.S.Year: 1973Format: FlyerCollection: Vietnam
Event held to honor the birthday of Ho Chi Minh.
Memorial ceremony for Nguyen Thai Binh- San Francisco Memorial ceremony for Nguyen Thai Binh- San Francisco
Publisher: The Union of Vietnamese in The U.S.Year: 1972Format: FlyerCollection: Vietnam
Event to honor the Vietnamese student who had been protesting against the US aggression, and was blatantly murdered on Pan-AM 747 on 7-2-72.
Indochina: The Second Decade Indochina: The Second Decade
Publisher: The GuardianYear: 1971Format: CompilationCollection: Vietnam
Supplemental newspaper put out by The Guardian with articles only focused on Vietnam
Two, Three, Many Vietnams Two, Three, Many Vietnams
Author: Margaret RandallDate: 3/19/1974Volume Number: 19-MarFormat: PoemCollection: Vietnam
Famous Poem by Margaret Randall
Operation Total Victory: February 1971 Operation Total Victory: February 1971
Author: Banning GarrettPublisher: Pacific Studies CenterYear: 1971Volume Number: Third Edition- FebruaryFormat: PamphletCollection: Vietnam
Pamphlet which provides analyses of the Indochina war in times of crisis
A Warship Can Be Stopped: Support the men of the Coral Sea A Warship Can Be Stopped: Support the men of the Coral Sea
Format: ReportCollection: Vietnam
Stop Our Ships Movement calls for support at the Alameda Naval Air Station