Search Help

How does this work?
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.

Search Results

South Africa/Chris Hani South Africa/Chris Hani
Date: 4/28/1991Call Number: KN 008Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Kiilu NyashaProgram: Chris HaniCollection: Programs produced by Kiilu Nyasha
Press conference in SF with Chris Hani of the ANC
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1991Volume Number: Vol. 15-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
George Bush and the Last Crusade; The Anti Feminist Mystique: Men R Back; Interview with Hungary's Feminist Newwork: Starting from Absolute Zero; Glimpses of South Africa, August 1990; War of Words: Language, Colonialism and English Only; Malcolm X Speaks in the 1990s: Declaration of the African-American Delegation to Symposium in Havana; Femininity: What's it to You?; A Golden Cage: Dora Maria Tellez Talks About Women and Men in Nicaragua; Free Mumia Abu Jamal: An Open Letter from the Black Cultural Workshop, Lompoc Federal Penitentiary; Spanish Political Prisoners: Hunger Strike, One Year Later; CIPES on El Salvador; Write Through the Walls
Juanita Nelson on racism Juanita Nelson on racism
Date: 2/23/1991Call Number: SS 001AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Juanita Nelson is a 40-year tax resister and talks about racism, taxes and resistance.
Behind the Burning Cross, Racism USA Behind the Burning Cross, Racism USA
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 130Format: VHSProducers: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, George LippmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This brief history of the most notorious hate groups in the U.S. not only provides some interesting background on the Ku Klux Klan and its origins as a tool for rolling back the African-Americans' gains of the reconstruction period but also portrays its widespread activities today and its links with Nazi and nativist skinheads. Examines the violence being used by these hate groups in the 1990's to further racism, anti-semitism, gay-bashing, nativism and pushing back the womens movement. Footage of interviews with David Duke and Tom Metzger reveals their efforts to repackage hate within the bosom of so-called "All American Values." Examines the phenomenon of "white" rock'n roll and the right-wing media establishment to mobilize whites against blacks, gays, foreigners and Jews. Quickly examines the relationships between the FBI and the Klan. Also shows that many skinheads condemn the fascist skinhead movement.
Activist Interviews Activist Interviews
Date: 3/1/1991Call Number: V 512Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with Jim Denison on Gay Leftist politics, Gloria Alonzo and Fidel Pena creating an AIDS awareness center at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, and Eric Larsen explaining why he decided to take a militant stance by deserting from the army.
Stop Racist Attacks on Arab People in the U.S. Stop Racist Attacks on Arab People in the U.S.
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1991Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
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Get Up! Stand Up Get Up! Stand Up
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1991Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
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Racism in Wartime Racism in Wartime
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1991Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
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No War No Way No War No Way
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeDate: 2/1991Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PamphletCollection: Breakthrough
A special anti-war supplement
NoKKK! No Fascist USA! NoKKK! No Fascist USA!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1991Volume Number: Summer/FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In this Issue: LAPD- A case Study in Racist Violence. Also: Geronimo Pratt Update; Anti-Arab Racism; and more.