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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.
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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.
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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Rigoberta Menchu at Riverside Church Rigoberta Menchu at Riverside Church
Date: 11/17/1992Call Number: CV 026Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Rigoberta Menchu delivers a speech in which she asserts that her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize gives recognition to all indigenous people and contends that solving concrete problems are integral to human rights.
Behind the Burning Cross - In the Face of Hate Behind the Burning Cross - In the Face of Hate
Date: 11/6/1992Call Number: V 333Format: VHSProducers: Workers' Film, Video ForumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two films from the Workers' Film and Video Forum cover issues of racist hate crimes in America. "Behind the Burning Cross" presents the history and present actions of the Ku Klux Klan, the New Klan, WAR and Neo-Nazi skinheads. "In the Face of Hate" discusses hate crimes in the Pacific Northwest.
Visionary Voices Visionary Voices
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 433Format: VHSProducers: Penny RosenwaaserCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Conference of writers published in Visionary Voices: Women on Power. Contains discussions of interracial coalition building, lesbian identity, race, spirituality, shamanism, anti-imperialism, indigenous struggle, and women's power. Features Papusa Molina of Women Against Racism and Winona LaDuke.
International Women's Day - 1992 International Women's Day - 1992
Date: 3/7/1992Call Number: V 436Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women celebrate 500 years of resistance and protesting the recognition of Christopher Columbus Day. March takes place on Columbus Ave in San Francisco. Andrea Carmen of National Indian Treaty Council is interviewed and is a keynote speaker.
Raul Izaguirre Raul Izaguirre
Date: 2/14/1992Call Number: CV 290AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Raul Izaguirre the president of the National Council of La Raza speaks on issues facing the Chicano community - a failing education system, electoral representation. He also discusses Chicano contributions to communities.
Raul Izaguirre Raul Izaguirre
Date: 2/14/1992Call Number: CD 770Format: CDProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Raul Izaguirre the president of the National Council of La Raza speaks on issues facing the Chicano community - a failing education system, electoral representation. He also discusses Chicano contributions to communities.
Russell Means - For the World to Live, Columbus Must Die Russell Means - For the World to Live, Columbus Must Die
Date: 4/27/1992Call Number: CE 486Format: Cass A & BProducers: KALWProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Russell Means, Oglala Sioux activist, speaks in response to Andy Rooney's column on how it is "silly" for Native Americans to complain about professional sports team names. Means discusses the image of Native Americans, as opposed to Blacks in America. He combats the claim that Native Americans have no great culture and complicates the idea of Native American contribution. He discusses the effects of nuclear waste on Indian Reservations, or what he calls "concentration camps." He puts responsibility on the white citizens of America to see to it that the US government follows its own laws, and to curb the waste it produces. For things to change, people must "Kill Columbus - kill his legacy."
Pan American Airlines is Racist Protest Pan Am Pan American Airlines is Racist Protest Pan Am
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1992Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
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NoKKK! No Fascist USA! NoKKK! No Fascist USA!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 10/1992Volume Number: OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Unheard Voices of the LA Rebellion; also: Racism in Germany; 1992 Elections; Voters on the Rights; Letters; News Briefs; Death Penalty=Legal Lynching; poetry and more.
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 16-1 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Goodbye, Columbus: Thoughts on Western Civilization, Jimmy Emmerman p. 1 - El Salvador: the Road Ahead, interview with FMLN Representative Ramon Cardona p. 4 - A Feminist Guide to the Galaxy, Judith Mirkinson p. 9 - Backlash: the Undeclared War on American Women by Susan Faludi, reviewed by Sally Thomas p. 15 - De Ambiente, interviews with the Nicaraguan Movement of Lesbian Feminists and Gay Men p. 17 - Will Postmodernism Kill the Movement? Les Gottesman p. 24 - Black Women and AIDS: the Second Epidemic, Judy Gerber p. 32 - Supermax: Control Unit Prisons, Nancy Kurshan p. 40 - Can\'t Kill the Spirit: Political Prisoners Update p. 46 - Write Through the Walls p. 47