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

Viva La Causa: The Story of César Chávez and a Great Movement for Social Justice Viva La Causa: The Story of César Chávez and a Great Movement for Social Justice
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: CD 633Format: DVDProducers: Bill BrummelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Focuses on the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the workers who put food on our tables.
Guantanamo Event at Riverside Church Guantanamo Event at Riverside Church
Date: 3/3/2008Call Number: LT 002Format: VHSCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
A panel organized by the Riverside Church to address institutionalized practices of torture, as part of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture to shut down Guantanamo Bay. Featuring Ron Daniels.
Guantanamo Riverside Church Event - Part 1 Guantanamo Riverside Church Event - Part 1
Date: 3/3/2008Call Number: LT 003Format: Mini DVCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
A panel organized by the Riverside Church to address institutionalized practices of torture, as part of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture to shut down Guantanamo Bay.
Guantanamo Riverside Church Event - Part 2 Guantanamo Riverside Church Event - Part 2
Date: 3/3/2008Call Number: LT 004Format: Mini DVCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
A panel organized by the Riverside Church to address institutionalized practices of torture, as part of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture to shut down Guantanamo Bay.
Cointelpro 101 - Trailer for CR 10 Cointelpro 101 - Trailer for CR 10
Date: 9/23/2008Call Number: M 088Format: DVDCollection: Cointelpro
10-Minute Cointelpro trailer used for panel at Critical Resistance Conference at Oakland's Laney College.
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2008Volume Number: No. 31 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- Black August We Will Never Forget
A3 Annual Update A3 Annual Update
Publisher: International Coalition to Free the Angola 3Date: 12/2008Volume Number: DecemberFormat: FlyerCollection: Angola 3
Flyer with updates, contact information and background information around the Angola 3