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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.
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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.
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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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Lucky 'M' Pool Hall, 1973. Lucky 'M' Pool Hall, 1973.
Call Number: IH 056Format: CDProducers: Al RoblesCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Al Robles recites a spoken word comparing music, poetry, art, and life. Next Al Robles interviews a group of manongs in the famed Lucky M pool hall. The interview begins with a group of manongs complaining that ignorant people think that the I-Hotel should be demolished. If this historical landmark is gone, many have no place to go. During the interview Al mainly talks to manong Duvera. Coming to America in 1917, Duvera got a Job as an apprentice barber in the famed Tino's barbershop. He explains the vibrant culture and music that was in the barbershop. Currently working at the Lucky M, Duvera reminisced of the good old days leading to lucky M's closing on March 1st, 1973. Along with other vanishing businesses, Lucky M was the last Filipino pool hall in Manilatown.
Solidarity Not Charity Solidarity Not Charity
Date: 12/1/2005Call Number: CD 548Format: DVDProducers: Common GroundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Made during the period of the Thanksgiving Road Trip by an amazing volunteer team of videomakers. It is a wonderful expression of Common Ground's overall mission as well as a document of the work achieved so far. With titles and music and footage of banging down walls as well as political analysis.
Welcome to New Orleans Welcome to New Orleans
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 549Format: DVDProducers: Rasmus HolmCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The city of New Orleans is a ghost town after the Hurricane Katrina. While most people left the city in fear, racism and poverty is there to stay. In a city full of racists and vigilantes, we meet the 58-year-old former Black Panther Malik Rahim. All his life he has been struggling to make a difference, and been trying to pass on a better society to his children and grandchildren. In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina, the need is greater than ever, and Malik uses the attention this brings, to begin the building of a long-term grassroots organization. The film starts in the days after the hurricane, and takes us on a journey to poor Afro-American neighborhoods where the mainstream media never goes. We meet despair, hate and a little hope despite all. But most of all it tells us the story about one man who wants to make a better world, and about his extraordinary fight for peace and justice.
Tongues Untied Tongues Untied
Date: 7/16/1991Call Number: V 487Format: VHSProducers: Marlon RiggsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Film by Marlon Riggs that recounts his life history, intermixed with Essex Hemphill’s poetry, a visit to the Institute of Snap!thology, and a celebration of black men loving black men as a revolutionary act.
International Hotel Rally International Hotel Rally
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesFormat: mp3Collection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Don Foster reports on the massive rally of support against the evictions of International Hotel Residents.
Felix Ayson I-Hotel Felix Ayson I-Hotel
Publisher: The Freedom ArchivesFormat: mp3Collection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Felix Ayson speaks against the eviction of residents of the I-hotel in August, 1977.
Andraes Alegria reports from the I-Hotel Andraes Alegria reports from the I-Hotel
Publisher: The Freedom ArchivesFormat: mp3Collection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Short clip of Andraes Alegria reporting as San Francisco Police sledgehammer doors of occupied apartments at the I-Hotel eviction, August 1977.
Felix Ayson on Unity at the I-Hotel Struggle Felix Ayson on Unity at the I-Hotel Struggle
Publisher: The Freedom ArchivesFormat: mp3Collection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Felix Ayson speaks of unity at the International Hotel anti-eviction rally.
I-Hotel Demonstration Audio I-Hotel Demonstration Audio
Publisher: The Freedom ArchivesFormat: mp3Collection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Audio describing the demonstration at the I-Hotel on August 4th 1977.
Live at the I-Hotel Live at the I-Hotel
Publisher: The Freedom ArchivesFormat: mp3Collection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Compilation of audio clips taken from the demonstration and eviction of residents at the I-Hotel on August 4th 1977.