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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.
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.

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Interview with Zack Lyde Interview with Zack Lyde
Date: 8/1/1997Call Number: SS 011BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Zack Lyde, the director of "Save the People." It is about the environmental racism and toxics in Brunswick, GA.
Interview with Kiilu Nyasha Interview with Kiilu Nyasha
Date: 9/1/1997Call Number: SS 021Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Kiilu Nyasha regarding the Soledad Brothers.
People and the Land People and the Land
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 120Format: VHSProducers: Tom Hayes, Raid BahhurCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Ahlan w'Sahlan (Our People and Our Lands)is a Palestinian expression of greeting offering everything between earth and sky for the comfort of a guest. It also sums up the dual responsibilities placed on an occupying power by the Geneva Accords; administration of the occupied territory and responsibility for the well-being of the people on it. People and the Land airdrops viewers into the universe of an occupied people, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging U.S. foreign policy and the conventions of the documentary form itself, People and the Land examines the concrete realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of U.S. support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the U.S.
Herman Bell Herman Bell
Date: 3/21/1997Call Number: PM 333AFormat: Cass ACollection: Herman Bell
Former Black Panther and activist in the Black Liberation Movement Herman Bell speaks briefly about a program to train inner-city youths in food production.
Political Prisoner Little Rock Reed Political Prisoner Little Rock Reed
Date: 4/7/1997Call Number: PM 335Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Little Rock Reed
Political prisoner Little Rock Reed speaks about general prison issues and abuses in the Ohio State prison system and his work to win Native American religious rights in prison.
Bashir Hameed - Sullivan Prison Hearing - 1 of 2 Bashir Hameed - Sullivan Prison Hearing - 1 of 2
Date: 7/1/1997Call Number: CD 681Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
BLA Political Prisoner fights prison write-up in this hearing recorded in Sullivan New York State prison. Hameed defends himself against charges of refusing double bunking for medical reasons. He died while still in prison August 30, 2008 after prolonged illness and medical neglect.
Bashir Hameed - Sullivan Prison Hearing - 2 of 2 Bashir Hameed - Sullivan Prison Hearing - 2 of 2
Date: 7/1/1997Call Number: CD 682Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
BLA Political Prisoner fights prison write-up in this hearing recorded in Sullivan New York State prison. Hameed defends himself against charges of refusing double bunking for medical reasons. He died while still in prison August 30, 2008 after prolonged illness and medical neglect.
Bashir Hameed - Sullivan Prison Hearing Bashir Hameed - Sullivan Prison Hearing
Date: 10/30/1997Call Number: CD 683Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
BLA Political Prisoner fights prison write-up in this hearing recorded in Sullivan New York State prison. Hameed defends himself against charges of refusing, once again, double bunking for medical reasons. He died while still in prison August 30, 2008 after prolonged illness and medical neglect.
Interview with Eddie Ellis Interview with Eddie Ellis
Date: 12/10/1997Call Number: PM 387AFormat: Cass ACollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Ellis was a former political prisoner who now directs an organization to educate the public about the prison industrial complex. He talks about prison re-entry and recidivism, the destruction of college-level education programs in the prison system and its consequences. He also discusses reforming the criminal justice system.
Judi Bari Deposition Part 1 Judi Bari Deposition Part 1
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: JB 103Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Edited for trial: Bari discusses the bombing, joining Earth First!, Seeds of Peace group in her coalition for Redwood Summer, nonviolence, tree spiking, Redwood Summer, Board of Supervisors meeting, death threats, and fake press releases.