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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.
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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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Oshewa Kudze: SF Medical Center Oshewa Kudze: SF Medical Center
Date: 5/18/1978Call Number: PM 263AFormat: Cass ACollection: African liberation movements
The commander of medical care in Mozambique's refugee camps explains the problems of displaced refugees. Because of the heightened political turmoil, refugee camps in surrounding areas such as Rhodesia, Zimbabwe are being overpopulated. The commander explains that Mozambique's numbers in camps are rapidly increasing due to displaced people joining their camps. Population is passing 150,000 and people in crowded camps make medical care difficult. Threats of an epidemic such as typhoid can create a massive danger and vaccines are not being provided efficiently. Along with this current struggle, the commander explains the past injustices the Rhodesian army was doing to innocent refugees. Injustices like US supplied napalm, infecting drinking water and just providing the vaccination to white Africans, killing 700 in one camp, and poisoning crops.
Our Women are Women of Action Our Women are Women of Action
Author: ZIMBABWE NEWSPublisher: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee / John Brown Book ClubYear: 1978Format: PamphletCollection: Zimbabwe
Four Articles from the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) on the role of women in the national liberation struggle. Cover includes photo fo an armed woman soldier. Back cover includes a plea to support the ZANU mobile clinic project.
Our Women are Women of Action Our Women are Women of Action
Author: ZIMBABWE NEWSPublisher: Zimbabwe newsYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-1 and 10-2Format: PamphletCollection: Zimbabwe
Four Articles from the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) on the role of women in the national liberation struggle.
South Africa and Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt South Africa and Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt
Date: 6/17/1978Call Number: FI 197Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara Lubinski, Mark SchwartzProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Second anniversary of Soweto marked in South Africa. Mark Schwartz interviews Geronimo in-depth in prison.
Namibia: SWAPO Fights for Freedom Namibia: SWAPO Fights for Freedom
Publisher: Liberation Support MovementYear: 1978Format: BookCollection: SWAPO- Namibia
Contains a wealth of information which provides insight into what sort of Namibia would unfold under SWAPO\'s leadership.
SWAPO Information- on SWAPO: An Historical Profile SWAPO Information- on SWAPO: An Historical Profile
Publisher: SWAPO Department of Information and PublicityDate: 7/1978Volume Number: JulyFormat: MonographCollection: SWAPO- Namibia
Contents include: Part 1. Loss of Independence and Early Resistance; Part 2. SWAPO 1960-1970- Armed Struggle and Increasing Repression; Part 3. SWAPO 1971-1977- The Strength that has caused South Africa to crumble; more
Commemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of Amilcar Cabral Commemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of Amilcar Cabral
Author: Amaro Alexandre DaLuzPublisher: TCHUBA- American Committee for Cape VerdeDate: 1/20/1978Volume Number: 20-JanFormat: TranscriptCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
A speech by Amaro Alexandre DaLuz, Cape Verdean Ambassador to the United Nations prepared for delivery at a commemoration program in Boston, Massachusetts observing the 5th anniversary of the assasination of Amilcar Cabral
Imperialist Strategy in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa Imperialist Strategy in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
Author: Samora MichelPublisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationDate: 9/15/1978Volume Number: 15-SepFormat: MonographCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Statement by Samora Machel concerning imperialism in Southern Africa.
People\'s Power in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau People\'s Power in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau
Publisher: Mozambique, Angola & Guine Information CentreYear: 1978Volume Number: No. 11 January-MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Structures of Power in Mozambique, Story of the First Congress, MPLA-Workers Party, Guinea tackles crop failure, Communal Villages of Gaza
People\'s Power in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau People\'s Power in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau
Publisher: Mozambique, Angola & Guine Information CentreYear: 1978Volume Number: No. 12 Autumn-WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Contents include Sena Sugar (Mozambique), Life in a FRELIMO school: Building the new party, Angola and the West, People\'s assembly (Guinea-Bissau)