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

Gay Liberation Gay Liberation
Date: 6/12/1976Call Number: FI 010Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Gay liberation and attacks on gays, Anita Bryant. Dialogue: two lesbians and gay man talk about struggle against male supremacy and capitalism, antigay sentiment, racism among gay people, differences based on race.
Date: 1/12/1991Call Number: V 061Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentaries about white supremacist organizations. With footage of Tom Metzger and David Duke.
KQED show on War/Order and Through the Wire KQED show on War/Order and Through the Wire
Call Number: V 062Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
KQED program on white supremacist organizations.
Black Liberation Army communication on Jacksonville events Black Liberation Army communication on Jacksonville events
Date: 7/5/1974Call Number: PM 179Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude MarksCollection: BLA
Safiyah Bukhari reads Black Liberation Army (BLA) communication from underground location about the BLA’s position on the killings in Jacksonville, the organization’s missions, and goals for the people of the United States.
Discussion with Dhoruba bin Wahad and Taniquil Discussion with Dhoruba bin Wahad and Taniquil
Date: 5/20/1990Call Number: PM 194Format: Cass A & BCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Discussion with Dhoruba bin Wahad and Taniquil at someone’s home addressing a group of progressive whites about multiracial formations and the state of race in the US. Two full sides, tape gets cut off at end of Side B.
Militant Workers in Detroit, 8/27/73 Militant Workers in Detroit, 8/27/73
Date: 8/27/1973Call Number: KP 058Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: General materials
Poor conditions in Detroit auto factory’s result in strikes against the Chrysler Corporation , among others. Jefferson Ave. and the Detroit Forge Plant were two sites of strike activity. Jim Jacobs explains some of the reasoning behind the strikes, and relates the issue to black equality as well.
Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity. Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity.
Call Number: KP 069Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black Women discussing many issues that face them including white liberals and fear, and the media and its outlets.
Malcolm X: Militant Labor Forum, “Prospects for Freedom in 1965.” Malcolm X: Militant Labor Forum, “Prospects for Freedom in 1965.”
Date: 1/7/1965Call Number: KP 062Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Malcolm X
Malcolm X speaks at a Militant Labor Forum and discusses the difference between the Black Muslim movement and the Black Nationalist group, the difference between moral and political protest, the labeling of extremists as monsters and also looks to examples of black freedom fighters in Africa as models for African Americans demanding equal rights. There are editorialized interruptions from the DJ.
Interview with woman from Selma, Alabama on election fraud. Interview with woman from Selma, Alabama on election fraud.
Call Number: KP 070Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Voices from the South
Interview with unknown woman on election in Selma, Alabama, “Joe Gotta Go” campaign, voter fraud against African-Americans and tactics to keep their vote from counting. She recalls Dr. King’s “I stood on the bridge” speech and asks, “Have we made any progress?”
Malcolm X Unity Rally, United Black Front Malcolm X Unity Rally, United Black Front
Call Number: KP 086Format: CassetteCollection: Malcolm X
Malcolm X gives an impassioned speech to a crowd in Harlem about the ills and abuses African Americans have endured by the "blue-eyed white devils" or "white-disease." He argues for complete separation and an independent nation, or back to Africa. Criticizes pacifist civil rights leaders like Dr. King and espouses eye-for-an-eye style of justice.