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

Jesse Jackson @ AFL-CIO Jesse Jackson @ AFL-CIO
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 020Format: CassetteCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Jesse Jackson delivers a speech at an AFL-CIO meeting calling for a strong and independent labor movement to create a climate for leaders to enact change.
Dr. Marian Moses interview Dr. Marian Moses interview
Date: 3/23/1992Call Number: CV 147AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dr. Marian Moses of the Pesiticide Education Center talks about the dangers of chemicals used in industrial farming pose to farmworkers and their children in California. She emphasizes the disproportionate number of deaths among migrant farmworkers' children from lukemia because of pesticide use in the fields.
US/Mexican Free Trade US/Mexican Free Trade
Date: 8/21/1992Call Number: CV 209Format: Cass A & BProgram: En Contacto DirectoCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Forum with professors Raul Hinojosa of UCLA and Andres Jimenez of UC Berkeley about a much debated free trade agreement between the United States and Mexico. Discussion includes migration of rural workers in Mexico, the ending of the communal farm system, job creation and job loss around the border, and the "integration" economies of Mexico and the US.
United Farm Workers - SF Protest United Farm Workers - SF Protest
Date: 11/13/1992Call Number: CV 259AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interviews with UFW demonstrators who are protesting pesticide use on grapes. Grape growers are selling their produce overseas since sales are down in the US. Cesar Chavez discuss his efforts to raise awareness about pesticides and their health effects among Hong Kong consumers. He also talks about how NAFTA may influence union organizing.