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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.
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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.
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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Political Prisoners: There and Here Political Prisoners: There and Here
Date: 11/18/1990Call Number: PM 423Format: Cass A & BProducers: WBOMCollection: African liberation movements
Nelson Mandela addresses US Congress on the end of Apartheid, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, former Black Panther Party member and Freedom Now member speak out on the governments escalation of oppression and its parallels to attempts to stomp out the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa.
Political Prisoners: There and Here Political Prisoners: There and Here
Date: 11/18/1990Call Number: CD 813Format: CDProducers: WBOMCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Nelson Mandela addresses US Congress on the end of Apartheid, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, former Black Panther Party member and Freedom Now member speak out on the governments escalation of oppression and its parallels to attempts to stomp out the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa.
Judge Bruce Wright on racism Judge Bruce Wright on racism
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: PM 428Format: Cass A & BProducers: Konnections, Commitee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Introduction by Nancy Kurshan and preliminary comments by Jose Lopez. Lecture by Bruce Wright, judge, scholar, poet and activist for social justice. Using his own experience as a Black man, he describes the history of US racism and the criminal justice system. Transcript available for download: http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.wright.speech.bangs.whispers.1989.pdf
Judge Bruce Wright on racism Judge Bruce Wright on racism
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: CD 818Format: CDProducers: Konnections, Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Lecture by Bruce Wright, judge, scholar, poet and activist for social justice. Using his own experience as a Black man, he describes the history of US racism and the criminal justice system. Transcript available for download: http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.wright.speech.bangs.whispers.1989.pdf
ANC Representative speaks to California Audience Part 2 ANC Representative speaks to California Audience Part 2
Call Number: AFR 089Format: Cass A & BCollection: South Africa
This cassette features the second half of a speech given by an ANC representative in America. "Tommy" Discussed are various facets of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa but also the commonality of international struggles against racism, the Trilateral Commission and the manufactured divisions between various South African independence parties. Most of the tape is Q and A.
Bruce Wright on racism Bruce Wright on racism
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: V 634Format: DV CamProducers: KonnectionsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Excerpts of lecture by Bruce Wright, judge, scholar, poet and activist for social justice. Using his own experience as a Black man, he describes the history of US racism and the criminal justice system. Transcript available for download.
In the Midst of Struggle - 12 In the Midst of Struggle - 12
Date: 6/28/1986Call Number: FI 192Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Marks 16th anniversary of the program. Focus on Nicaragua and South Africa. Opens with "Mantra Contra Contras" poem by Lincoln Bergman and song "Yankee Go Home!" followed by musical selections from Central America and southern Africa and closing antiwar song by Pete Seeger.
Southern Africa Reports Southern Africa Reports
Date: 10/12/1985Call Number: FI 216Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Update on situations in national liberation struggles throughout southern Africa, including UN Security Council condemnation of the attack by South Africa against SWAPO in Angola.
Women of South Africa Women of South Africa
Date: 8/4/1979Call Number: FI 227Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
In-depth interview with Naomi Nhiwatiwa, representing ZANU, to mark South Africa Women's Day. After Zimbabwe gained independence,she was a Minister in the government from 1980-1988. Later she was Director of the World Health Organization and the UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The origin of the day is explained as struggle against the pass laws in South Africa. Program rebroadcast on August 9, 1980.
Fred Dube of the African National Coingress (ANC) Fred Dube of the African National Coingress (ANC)
Date: 1/21/1980Call Number: FI 232Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Interview with Fred Dube, representative of the African National Congress. Discusses situation in South Africa, impact of victory in Zimbabwe, his prison experience, white supremacy, and international solidarity.