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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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Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team I Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team I
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 292Format: UmaticProducers: WPIX TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team. For similar footage, see V 293 and V 294. See V 295 for digital video of all three news reports.
Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team II Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team II
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 293Format: UmaticProducers: ABC TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Additional corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team. For similar footage, see V 292 and V 294. See V 295 for digital video of all three news reports.
Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team III Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team III
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 294Format: UmaticProducers: CBS TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Additional corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team. For similar footage, see V 292 and V 293. See V 295 for digital video of all three news reports.
Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team (Collected) Anti-Apartheid Demonstration Against South African Rugby Team (Collected)
Date: 9/26/1981Call Number: V 295Format: Mini DVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Same as V 292, V293, and V 294, collected in digital format. Corporate news footage of anti-Apartheid activists demonstating against the arrival in the US of the all-white South African Springbok rugby team.
Connexions: Women Organizing Against violence Connexions: Women Organizing Against violence
Publisher: Peoples Translation ServicesYear: 1981Volume Number: No. 1 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Connexions
Focuses global movements by women against violence. It is written by women and for women in an attempt to organize, support, and educate. Features articles on environmentalism, patriarchy, nuclear warfare, rape, and apartheid.
South Africa and the Struggle for Liberation South Africa and the Struggle for Liberation
Publisher: Coalition of Black Trade UnionistsDate: 6/25/1981Volume Number: 25-JunFormat: ProgramCollection: Africa- General Resources
Labor/Community Forum sponsored by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists at SF Community College District Auditorium
Free Zeph Mothopeng and All Political Prisoners in Azania Free Zeph Mothopeng and All Political Prisoners in Azania
Author: Nyati J. PokelaPublisher: PAC Observer Mission to the U.N.Date: 10/12/1981Volume Number: 12-OctFormat: TranscriptCollection: South Africa
Statement by Nyati J. Pokela, chairman, PAC Central Committee to the United Nations Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
Black Consciousness Reaffirmed Black Consciousness Reaffirmed
Publisher: AZAPODate: 7/1981Volume Number: JulyFormat: PamphletCollection: South Africa
Anti-Springbok 5 Defense Committee Correspondence Anti-Springbok 5 Defense Committee Correspondence
Publisher: The Anti-Springbok-5 Defense CommitteeDate: 11/15/1981Volume Number: 15-NovFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: South Africa
Five Years After Soweto: An evening in commemoration of Azania's fallen heroes and heroines Five Years After Soweto: An evening in commemoration of Azania's fallen heroes and heroines
Publisher: Prairie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1981Format: FlyerCollection: South Africa
Events include a film (End of the Dialogue) and eyewitness report and slides of SOWETO uprising.