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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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Ralph David Abernathy: Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War Ralph David Abernathy: Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War
Date: 1/1/1969Call Number: KP 009Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Anti-War
A speech given to huge outdoor rally in SF Bay Area in 1969 condemning imperialism and the war in Vietnam. GREAT materials!
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 10/27/1973Call Number: NI 004Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude MarksProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Wide ranging program--including report from Pine Ridge and many other inserts (separately described).
Vietnam Victory Vietnam Victory
Date: 5/3/1975Call Number: NI 056Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nancy Barrett, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is a Vietnam victory program. NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
Report/Wrap Up by Lincoln Bergman Report/Wrap Up by Lincoln Bergman
Date: 5/2/1971Call Number: PEN 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Live reportCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Report on the largest mass arrest in US history
George Jackson George Jackson
Call Number: PM 004Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: short excerpts from George JacksonCollection: George Jackson
George Jackson comments directly on Aug. 7, military mindedness of Jonathan, Cuba, Vietnam, more. Detailed notes inside box.
Inserts Inserts
Call Number: PM 024Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Mark SchwartzProgram: InsertsCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Mark Schartz report on San Quentin /Talamantez, maybe actuality. Vietnam woman/American Medical Association (AMA) demonstration, Asia Information info are other non-prison related inserts
Readings of George Jackson Readings of George Jackson
Date: 9/14/1971Call Number: PM 089Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Readings of George JacksonCollection: George Jackson
Recorded snippets and sample readings of the readings of George Jackson (Read by Chris Graham). Views on Vietnam, U.S. Prisons, Love of People, Views of Life, Black Panthers, Extremism, Prison Experience. *Extreme slow-sound distortion at the end of the tape.
Actor Chris Graham reading from Soledad Brother (Part 2 of 2) Actor Chris Graham reading from Soledad Brother (Part 2 of 2)
Date: 9/14/1971Call Number: PM 118Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: George Jackson
Actor Chris Graham does several readings of various passages from Soledad Brother. Sounds a lot like George Jackson. Good quality. Reel 2 of 2. See PM 112 for Reel 1 of 2 with Chris Graham reading Soledad Brother.
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 1/27/1973Call Number: RD 028Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon program covers: Cease Fire in Vietnam. U.S Military Draft officially ended today. Amilcar Cabral, leader of liberation struggle against the Portuguese Occupation of Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands has been assassinated. Program elaborates on his life and the revolutionary movement in Guinea Bissau and Angola. Demonstrations in Northern Ireland commemorated Bloody Sunday. Solidarity demonstrations in San Francisco. U.S. Ambassador to Haiti was kidnapped and held for the release of political prisoners and ransom. Rap Brown on trial in NY for charges of attempted murder and robbery. U.S. Supreme Court overruled all state laws that restrict women's right to an abortion in her first three months of pregnancy (Roe vs. Wade 1/22/73) Clay Whitehead, aide to Nixon, says government might have to control licensing of television networks because reporting is too biased against the president, He also said that many people liked Big Brother (from Orwell's 1984) because he did it in their "interest and concern."
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 2/3/1973Call Number: RD 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Tet: The Lunar New Year passes, spring festival. 100,000 plus patriots locked up as prisoners of Thieu in South Vietnam, 10,000 protest war in China, and thousands in Cuba. 25,000 people and a military parade commemorate the assassinated African revolutionary leader, Amilcar Cabral in Conakry Guinea. President Sekou Toure, Amiri Baraka and outlawed Portuguese Communist Party leader Perdo Suarez speak. Military resistance and bombings in Portugal support the people’s struggle in Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique and against Portuguese colonialism. Several major strikes by Black workers in South Africa. Bloody Sunday commemoration in San Francisco calls for unity among Catholics and Protestants to oppose 21,000 British occupation troops. Two students killed by police at University of Mexico, student strikes closes schools over the U.S. Continued genocide against indigenous people in Brazil. Waimiri Atroari attack National Indian Foundation that aims to “pacify and help Indians adapt to civilization” Puerto Rico House of Representatives passes a resolution asking Nixon to pardon and release the Puerto Rican 5. Continued arrest of Native Americans involved in Bureau of Indian Affairs occupation, convictions reversed for two accused of stealing copper wire from the Alcatraz occupation, more protests of racist hiring practices of California. More on the trial verdicts of Kitty Hawk and sailor resistance. 3,000 men discharged from Navy (many blacks and poor whites) because they “lack intelligence.” Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark spoke negatively of the U.S. position as a paramilitary police state. Senator Stennis the menace shot and wounded in D.C. Earl Whittaker, a sympathetic Black Tombs Rebellion Prison guard acquitted of trumped up charges. Jury chosen for Rap Browns participation in the 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in that motivated waves of Black student protests and started the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Includes excerpts from Brown’s opening statements. Parole denied to Robert Wells imprisoned for 44 yrs for defending himself against racist prison guard. Venceremos: Laura Taulbee and Milton Taulbee jailed for refusing to testify to Grand Jury. Guns and property seized from December FBI seizure of Mountain View home returned Governor Reagan and Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke make misogynist comments about birth control.