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.

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Instituto Laboral #1 Instituto Laboral #1
Date: 9/4/1987Call Number: CV 078Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Annual awards ceremony of the Insituto Laboral de la Raza. Speeches and presentations by various San Francisco labor leaders. Award recipients include Gloria Betancourt and Curt Flood.
Instituto Laboral #1 Instituto Laboral #1
Date: 9/4/1987Call Number: CV 104AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Continuation of annual awards ceremony of the Insituto Laboral de la Raza. Speeches and presentations by various San Francisco labor leaders. Curt Flood gives speech and is presented with award in his name.
The Crisis In El Salvador The Crisis In El Salvador
Date: 7/25/1987Call Number: CV 123BFormat: Cass BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Jacqueline Bradley and Andre Herrera of the Central American Refugee Committee in Santa Cruz about the continued Civil War in El Salvador and the extreme poverty and unemployment as a result of the war. Increased protests for peace and jobs by Salvodoran workers, violently suppressed by the military.The catastrophic effect of deported refugees on the already starved economy where military jobs are the only ones available.
Grape Boycott Grape Boycott
Date: 7/22/1987Call Number: CV 310Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
United Farm Workers organized a table grape boycott in Berkeley because of the use of pesticides and chemicals. Proponents of the boycott spoke to the Berkeley City Council and the resolution was passed. Also, homelessness in Berkeley was discussed.
UFW Met Life Protest w/ Dolores Huerta UFW Met Life Protest w/ Dolores Huerta
Date: 12/22/1987Call Number: CV 312Format: CassetteCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
This recording details a protest against Met Life (Metropolitan Life) and features segments and music in both English and Spanish. Topics of the protest include the use of pesticides and the long term effects of that exposure on workers as well as Met Life’s refusal to make concessions with the UFW.