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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.
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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Vietnam Victory Vietnam Victory
Date: 5/3/1975Call Number: CD 396Format: CDProducers: Nancy Barrett, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
This is a Vietnam victory program. Same as NI 005 NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Vietnam Independence day Vietnam Independence day
Date: 8/29/1975Call Number: KP 185Format: Cass A & BCollection: Vietnam
Live celebration for the first Vietnam Independence Day. With no foreign troops on Vietnam soil, a numerous amount of supporters came to rejoice. Beginning with a number of Vietnamese speakers, quotes of Ho Chi Minh are recited to gain hopes for the future of Vietnam. After the Vietnamese speakers, Janis Mergatani a prominent antiwar poet recites some of her poems. The last half of the celebration is a speech/slideshow involving the history of the occupation of Vietnam, starting with the French and ending with America leaving. With a time line of the injustices put upon the Vietnamese, many supporters look toward the future with optimism.
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X
Date: 5/19/1975Call Number: V 217Format: UmaticProducers: Nothing is More Precious ThanProgram: Open Studio - KQEDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tribute to Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh who share a birthday - May 19th. Utilizes historical Soviet film footage of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and film and stills of malcolm X.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/25/1975Call Number: NI 055Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Major emphasis on Amilcar Cabral and Guinea Bissau liberation, Portuguese colonialism and Portuguese women, as well as on Vietnam and antiwar activities, Attica, Puerto Rico, including FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation) bombing in NYC and negative response to it by the Puerto Rican Socialist Party.
Fidel Castro speech on Chile Fidel Castro speech on Chile
Date: 11/1/1975Call Number: KP 241Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Cuba
Most of a speech by Fidel Castro not long after Chilean coup. On Side B, before speech continues, are several statements by US airmen captured in Vietnam and a Vietnam interview with a GI who took asylum in Sweden.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 5/17/1975Call Number: NI 069Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Nancy BarrettProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
International news: Mayaguez incident off Cambodia, Vietnam renames Saigon Ho Chi Minh city, Laos update, Middle East news, Israeli attacks on Lebanon, repression against students in south Africa, assassination of Michael X in Trinidad. Acquittal of Gary Lawton in Riverside, CA, San Quentin 6, Black Liberation Army conviction of three in NYC, Symbionese Liberation Army. Special on Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X on another tape.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/11/1975Call Number: NI 053Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Detailed news stories on Vietnam situation two years after signing of Paris peace accords and other international news. Followed by trial of Bob Hood with Hood speaking, Black Liberation Army, including charges in connection with Ingleside police station attack in SF, the New York 5. Then San Quentin report with statement by prisoner Jeffrey Khatari Galton, Inez Garcia, detailed story on CIA history
Native American Women - Sterilization and resistance Native American Women - Sterilization and resistance
Date: 3/15/1975Call Number: CD 731Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Native American women and children sit in at FBI in Rapid City, SD. 3/15/1975 Norma Jean Serena case, forcibly sterilized in 1970, was able to get her children back, interviewed by phone at her home in Oklahoma in 1979. Sterilization of Native American women and exploitation of resources on Indian land, uranium, environmental degradation. 2/9/1980
Union of Vietnamese Interview and Event Union of Vietnamese Interview and Event
Date: 9/2/1975Call Number: KP 474Format: CassetteProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: Vietnam
Interview with representative of Union of Vietnamese Students in the US, on occasion of the first independence day after the victory over the US. Includes portion of speech from American Indian Movement (AIM), and live music by Holly Near at event celebrating the Vietnam victory.
What Now People? (Vol. 1) What Now People? (Vol. 1)
Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: Vin 019Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Various ArtistsCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The first volume in a compilation of political ballads by various folk singers and activist musicians. Songs cover a range of social movements, including women's rights, the antiwar movement, civil rights for African-Americans and American Indians, and the revolutionary movements in Cuba and Puerto Rico. "What Now People?" serves as a representation of the political song movement.