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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.
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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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4/23/65 Rally: Coalition Politics and the Student Bill of Rights. Interviews with Mario Savio and Charles Flynn 4/23/65 Rally: Coalition Politics and the Student Bill of Rights. Interviews with Mario Savio and Charles Flynn
Date: 4/23/1965Call Number: CE 725Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Rally speakers include student organizers Brad Cleaveland and Fred Bauer discussing a proposed student bill of rights, the relative merits of coalition building and direct action, and the desire to represent all students. Detailed discussion of the fate of the Tussman Proposal, an experimental curriculum plan. A student speaks on behalf of the University Reform Movement, a coalition organization. Event announcements including details of CORE’s restaurant pickets in Oakland. The Freedom Singers perform “We Shall Overcome” and there is a chant for “Freedom Now.” Interview with Mario Savio who discusses his perspective on the Filthy Speech Movement and the lack of­­ due process in student discipline, as well as the media’s representation of him. Interview with Charles Flynn of anti-FSM University Students for Law and Order, who discusses his changing views and working with FSM students to propose a disciplinary court with student jury.
Music From the Hormel Strikers Music From the Hormel Strikers
Call Number: FI 289Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Recording, "Live from Austin, Minnesota," of original and a few traditional labor/protest songs. sung by Hormel strikers (Waterfront Records). Strike (1985-6) against the huge Hormel Meat Packing Company gained wide support.
Milton Cardona Interview Milton Cardona Interview
Call Number: CD 910Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Art SatoProgram: In Your EarCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Aired 7-18-1993; has notes attached. Recorded November 1992.
Milton Cardona- last 2 interview segments Milton Cardona- last 2 interview segments
Call Number: CD 911Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Art SatoProgram: In Your EarCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Gerald Wilson Interview Part 1 Gerald Wilson Interview Part 1
Date: 11/20/1987Call Number: CD 912Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Art SatoProgram: In Your EarCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Aired 1-17-1988. Same as AS 034 and AS 238.
Gerald Wilson Interview Part 2 Gerald Wilson Interview Part 2
Date: 11/20/1987Call Number: CD 913Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Art SatoProgram: In Your EarCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Aired 1-24-1988; has notes attached. Same as AS 035 and AS 239.
Mario Savio Birthday Song Mario Savio Birthday Song
Date: 12/8/1964Call Number: CD 917Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Excerpt from CE 677. Taken from a recording of an FSM victory party that doubled as Mario Savio’s 22nd birthday party. Cd contains party attendees singing “Happy Birthday,” with some explanatory commentary by journalist Colin Edwards. *Track One Blank
Who Needs Prisons, and Who do the Prisons Need? (Interview with Veronza Bowers Jr.) Who Needs Prisons, and Who do the Prisons Need? (Interview with Veronza Bowers Jr.)
Author: Eda LevensonPublisher: The New SettlerYear: 2003Volume Number: Mid-May/June Issue 136Format: TranscriptCollection: Veronza Bowers Jr.
Written transcript of phone interview conducted by Eda Levenson, recorded on September 11, 2002. Broadcast on KZYX/Z in Philo, CA on 12/29/2002.
Soulbook #7: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #7: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: SoulbookYear: 1967Volume Number: Vol. 2-3 Summer-FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: On Vietnam; For Black Guerillas; The Propaganda Detachment of the Vietnamese Liberation Army; On Centralization; Reject Notes (Poetry); A Prison Diary; Fanonian Ideology and the Peasantry; Other Versions; Cuba: The Untold Story, Part 1.
Joan Baez at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz Joan Baez at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz
Producers: Frances EmleyCollection: Latin@
Activist folksinger Joan Baez sings at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz, a farm worker active in the United Farm-worker\'s Union who was killed on a picket line by a strikebreaker\'s bullet.