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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.
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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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Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/3/1976Call Number: NI 095Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, with Nina SerranoProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Theme of program is recurrent "that's just a lie" from Holly Near No More Genocide song, and a mix from Grain of Sand group. Includes stories poems on Native American struggle, poem from Weather Underground dedicated to Assata Shakur, African leader Amilcar Cabral speaking about connection between Africa and Afro-America, and a section on Cuba/Puerto Rico.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/14/1976Call Number: NI 100Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks with Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with major focus on Angola with report by Stave Talbot, and report on Roy Innis of CORE's statements on Angola and protests against them. Then focus on native American struggle at Pine Ridge, Arthur Kinoy on Puerto Rico, San Quentin Six (with info on George Jackson 1971 assassination), and speech at the Hard Times conference in Chicago by Carlos Vasquez on issue of undocumented workers.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 2/21/1976Call Number: NI 101Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: 02, 21, 1976Program: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with tribute to Augusto Cesar Sandino and Malcolm X on anniversary of assessinations, then reports on Dennis Banks and American Indian Movement, news about series of Bay Area arrests of alleged clandestine groups, ending with speech by labor organizer Kathy Dorsey at Hard Times conference in Chicago.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 1/4/1975Call Number: NI 052Format: 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
First program of 1975, opens with poem and New Year's statement from the Black Liberation Army, reports on San Quentin 6, Ruchell Magee, Willie Tate; report on Menominee Indian occupation of Wisconsin estate; Vietnam, and series of reports on Puerto Rico and sterilization of women in Puerto Rico.
20th Anniversary of the Takeover of Alcatraz 20th Anniversary of the Takeover of Alcatraz
Call Number: CD 597Format: CDProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
This is a recording from the 20th Anniversary of the Native American takeover of Alcatraz. Chuy Varela interviews various people at this event on their perspectives of this non-traditional Thanksgiving event and the continued Native American struggle. Also includes Native American prayers, chants and flute music.
Real Dragon Reborn Real Dragon Reborn
Date: 8/21/1999Call Number: RD 074Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Real Dragon (In Your Ear)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Inserts from special that spans the history of Real Dragon and later shows, with focus on Black August, George Jackson, Puerto Rican and other political prisoners.
Ward Churchill COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage Ward Churchill COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 131Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Ward Churchill is a prolific American Indian scholar/activist, Ward Churchill is a founding member of the Rainbow Council of Elders, and longtime member of the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. In addition to his numerous works on Indigenous history, he has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the repression of political dissent, including the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 132Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her to lifelong social justice activism. From 1967 to 1972, she was a full time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. In 1974, she became active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to international human rights.
Noithing Is More Precious Than Noithing Is More Precious Than
Date: 12/28/1974Call Number: NI 110Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Inserts without narration, including Native American trial, in-depth report on San Quentin prison lockdown, and report on Virginia prison rebellion and Attica trials, many charges/indictments dropped.
Statement of Facts Statement of Facts
Publisher: Norma Jean Croy Defense CommitteeFormat: StatementCollection: Norma Jean Croy
A narrative of the events surrounding the arrest of Norma Jean and Patrick "Hooty" Croy