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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.
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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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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
Attica Anniversary Program in Bay Area Attica Anniversary Program in Bay Area
Date: 9/13/1991Call Number: PM 086AFormat: Cass AProgram: Attica anniversary event, not for radioCollection: Attica
This tape in a recording of the 20th Attica anniversary event held in San Francisco. Bobby Castillo speaks on Native American and African American solidarity within the National Liberation movement, and the Movimento Liberacion Nacional (MLN) marching on Washington that week. Attorney. Bob Bloom gives an update on the Geronimo Pratt case. Dharuba Bin Wahad, s.n. Richard Moore, gives a talk on the history of national liberation struggle, including the Black Liberation Army, Attica, San Quentin and Cointelpro.
Interviews on Gay and Lesbian Rights legislation Interviews on Gay and Lesbian Rights legislation
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: PM 086BFormat: Cass BProgram: pre-story interviewsCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Over the phone interview with a man from Concord with the last name Whitsell. Mr. Whitsell became involved with the Human Relations Commission of Concord, CA after Timothy Lee, a young gay black man, was found hung in the Concord BART in 1987. He discusses the Commission, failed the AIDS ordinance, and successful Gay and Lesbian Rights ordinance. There is another interview with a gay student from Clark Kerr College on the verbal assault he faced from the football team and the harassment other students in the gay community faced.
Amanuel Tecle on Eritrean Independence Amanuel Tecle on Eritrean Independence
Date: 7/12/1991Call Number: JG/ 130AFormat: Cass ACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Discussion on colonial history of Eritrea and the EPLF's (Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front) creation, motives, actions, and victories.
Amanuel Tecle on the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front Amanuel Tecle on the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front
Date: 7/12/1991Call Number: JG/ 142Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Discusses the success of the independence movement, the changes in Eritrean infrastructure, agriculture, education, and social relationships, and hopes for self-sufficiency, democracy, and equality. Provides a concise history of colonialism in Eritrea, from Italian to Ethiopian occupation, and the 30-year war for independence ending in 1991.
The True Purpose of Imprisonment The True Purpose of Imprisonment
Date: 9/21/1991Call Number: PM 422Format: Cass A & BCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Jane Henderson on the Bush system of imprisonment and its demographics, the racist application of the death penalty, and the profit chain of the US Prison Industrial Complex. Ricardo Romero on border patrol, the parasitic system of power, the effect of drugs on struggle and the migration towards fascism. Al-Jundi speaks on control units and sensory deprivation. Copy of PM 421
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1991Volume Number: Fall/WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: And the Struggle Continues; NAPO Elections. Inside: Message from the Chairman, NAPO Newsbriefs, A Snake is a Snake (Clearance Thomas), Support Our Mandelas (Geronimo Ji Jaga), 500 Years of Native Resistance, Is the Image of Malcolm Being Pimped, New Orleans Police Murder Black Youth, more.
Moto Magazine Moto Magazine
Publisher: Mambo PressYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 95-96 December-JanuaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
" Top 100: Who are Cabinet's Whizzkids for 1990? Cover Story"
Moto Magazine Moto Magazine
Publisher: Mambo PressYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 102 JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"Quotations from Chairman Zvo Cover Story"
Speak Out-Taurai-Khulumani Speak Out-Taurai-Khulumani
Publisher: Women\'s Action GroupYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 14Format: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
In English, Shona and Ndebele.