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

Interview with Sandy Nicholas Interview with Sandy Nicholas
Date: 3/1/1997Call Number: SS 011AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Sandy Nicholas on mass media's body construction.
Televison News Response to East Bay Serial Rapist of 1997 Televison News Response to East Bay Serial Rapist of 1997
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 260Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Clips of the local news coverage of the East Bay serial-rapist case of 1997 in which 12 women were raped. Clips included come from KTVU, KPIX and KGO San Francisco Bay Area television stations. The clips highlight the grassroots response to the serial rapist, including scenes of the "Fear Is Not the Answer" rally held at Macarthur BART station and local activists pleading for a non-racist response from the public to the rapes. Small blurbs from the mayors of Oakland and Berkeley (Elihu Harris and Shirley Dean, respectively) and Oakland policeman Captain Pete Dunbar are also included.
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Rally Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Rally
Date: 5/9/1997Call Number: PM 287Format: Cass A & BCollection: Prisons - Women
Rally held by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children consisting of speeches by prisoners and prison activists concerning women in prison.
The War Against Feminism in the Name of the Almighty: Making Sense of Gender and Muslim Fundamentalism The War Against Feminism in the Name of the Almighty: Making Sense of Gender and Muslim Fundamentalism
Author: Janet AfaryPublisher: New Left ReviewYear: 1997Volume Number: July-AugustFormat: ArticleCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Reproduction.
Eyes of the Rainbow Eyes of the Rainbow
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CD 900Format: DVDProducers: Gloria RolandoProgram: Remastered 2013Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she lives in exile. Based on a visit with Assata in Havana. She tells us about her history and her life in Cuba. This film is also about Assata's AfroCuban context, including the Yoruba Orisha Oya, goddess of the ancestors, of war, of the cemetery and of the rainbow.