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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.
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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Tierra Amarilla Youth Brigades - Leadership Institute Tierra Amarilla Youth Brigades - Leadership Institute
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 602Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Summer program of the T.A.Y.B. Beginning of long hike, and songs and speeches. Extensive footage on the educational forums with topics that range from Nahuatl philosophy, La Mujer, Critical Educational Theory, Contemporary Mexican History, the Mexican Revolution and the history of the Chicano Movement.
On Strike! Ethnic Studies 1969 - 1999 On Strike! Ethnic Studies 1969 - 1999
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: C 10 126Format: DV CamProducers: Irum ShiekhCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Struggle to maintain Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Clips from the protests of the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) in 1960's to establish the department - interviews from members Jeff Leong, LaNada Boyer, Richard Aoki, Harvey Dong, Vina Nguyen Ha, and Jose Palafox. In 90's heavy budget cuts were implemented on the school, especially the Ethnic Studies Dept., thus protests reemerged that resulted in hunger strikes, police brutality, arrests, and 8 secure faculty positions for the dept. Interviews with faculty, staff, and students of UC Berkeley.
Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 615Format: VHSProducers: San Francisco Partnership for Incarcerated ParentsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Highlights of November 2003 panel discussion on the rights and experiences of children with incarcerated parents.
Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Bill of Rights
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 616Format: DVDProducers: San Francisco Partnership for Incarcerated ParentsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Highlights of November 2003 panel discussion on the rights and experiences of children with incarcerated parents.
CEML Conference Workshop #1: Racism, Youth and Police Torture CEML Conference Workshop #1: Racism, Youth and Police Torture
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: V 618Format: VHSProducers: CEMLCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
CEML moderator Mariel Nanasi, presenters Jeffrey Haas and Zulma Ortiz discuss police brutality in Chicago, the complicity of city officials, the police code of silence and high ranking police commander John Burge. Also present is a comparison between prison policies and school policies and the public school system is analyzed as a training ground for police repression of 3rd world communities. Q and A follows presentations.
Chicanos and the Draft;  Prisons & La Raza Chicanos and the Draft; Prisons & La Raza
Date: 1/21/1972Call Number: CD 838 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Raul Torres, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An interview with Lea Ibarra, a draft counselor serving Chicano youth and adults. Roberto Mendoza discusses current conditions for La Raza in California’s Prisons. This is the only recording of programming from this date, no other air check has been found
4 Days Inside Guantanamo 4 Days Inside Guantanamo
Date: 1/1/2010Call Number: V 626Format: DVDProducers: Luc Cote, Patricio HenriquizCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Based on declassified security video footage of an interrogation of a child detainee, in Guantánamo prison-- 16-year-old Omar Khadr, Canadian citizen picked up in Afghanistan, tortured, in 2010 received 8-year sentence. Unseen interrogator is a Canadian intelligence officer. Commentary by other prisoners, since released, his mother, a journalist, a US interrogator known as the "monster," and others.
Actores Secundarios Actores Secundarios
During the 80's, various social fought against the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. This is the story of high school students and teachers who were willing to risk their lives for a better society and their legacy in Chile today. In Spanish.
Interview with Paul Saltzman - Part 1 Interview with Paul Saltzman - Part 1
Call Number: CE 508Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Paul Saltzman, a college student from Toronto Canada, discusses his involvement with SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Saltzman discusses his upbringing as well as opinions on the current state of youth during the height of the civil rights movement.
Interview with Malcolm Zaretsky, Alan Perlman and Dr. Gerald Rosenfield, M.D. - Part 4 Interview with Malcolm Zaretsky, Alan Perlman and Dr. Gerald Rosenfield, M.D. - Part 4
Call Number: CE 516Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Malcolm Zaretsky, Alan Perlman and Dr. Gerald Rosenfield, M.D. discuss the Black Power Movement, the formation of an independent branch of politics and the political activity in Bay Area University campuses.