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

I Hotel I Hotel
Date: 2/26/1977Call Number: LA 008Format: CassetteCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Live coverage of the takeover of the I-Hotel, including documentation of police violence, interviews with tenants and Mayor Moscone, gathering at St. Mary’s Square. Includes: Reporter from Third World Bureau in Oakland live at the scene of the I-Hotel; highlights of action from 11PM-4:30AM and re-location to St. Mary’s Square and the Mission. Interview with Mayor Moscone where he is confronted about things such as the contradictions in police tactics, temporary housing policies, the swearing in of Donna Solomon as SF Human Rights Commissioner
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 4/14/1973Call Number: RD 038Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with Lincoln Bergman poem on healing wounds of war, actuality of Indian woman, and then poem extends throughout program, with news interspersed. War criminals must be brought to justice. Quote from Bethune. NOTE: Missing closing song--Vietnam Will Win by Red Star Singers. (have elsewhere and on record).
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 7/7/1973Call Number: RD 050Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Cambodia, Uruguay, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, national news
Interview with Ruth Cadwalader Interview with Ruth Cadwalader
Date: 4/10/1989Call Number: SS 105AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Ruth Cadwalader on Cambodia.
Interview with Ruth Cadwalater Interview with Ruth Cadwalater
Date: 4/18/1991Call Number: SS 105BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Ruth Cadwalater on Thailand.
Interview with Dr. Sein Win Interview with Dr. Sein Win
Call Number: SS 133Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Dr. Sein Win, the Prime Minister of Burma.
Interview with Harry Berg Interview with Harry Berg
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: SS 149AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Harry Berg on Vietnam.
"The Rape of Burma" by WINGS "The Rape of Burma" by WINGS
Call Number: SS 042Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
"The Rape of Burma" is a WINGS program about the suspension of family planning aid in Burma.
Interview with Ngo Vinh Long Interview with Ngo Vinh Long
Call Number: SS 043Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Ngo Vinh Long on the Vietnam War and environmental issues facing Vietnamese people.
Rise of the I-Hotel Rise of the I-Hotel
Call Number: CD 426Format: DVDProducers: Caroline CabadingCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Contemporary interviews and historical visual and audio materials chronicling the I Hotel struggle in San Francisco.