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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
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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."
Soulbook #7: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #7: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: SoulbookYear: 1967Volume Number: Vol. 2-3 Summer-FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: On Vietnam; For Black Guerillas; The Propaganda Detachment of the Vietnamese Liberation Army; On Centralization; Reject Notes (Poetry); A Prison Diary; Fanonian Ideology and the Peasantry; Other Versions; Cuba: The Untold Story, Part 1.
Marilyn Buck - a Tribute Marilyn Buck - a Tribute
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Marilyn Buck
Marilyn talks about how she grew into her won as a revolutionary, her experience in the anti-Vietnam and Black Liberation movements. She speaks to the revolutionary state where everyone has the right to their own culture, land, and means of production, and how the liberation of women is intrinsically tied to the liberation of all nations.
Soulbook #4: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #4: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: Afro-American Research InstitutionYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 1-4 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: Vietnam, SNCC, Bond; Richard Gibson; Notes on the Avant-Garde: A Brief Perspective on Black Music in the United States; A Reply to Mrs. "instant-hair" Thompson; Psychology and Negritude; Twas the Night Before Christmas; The Two Epochs of Nation Development- Is Black Nationalism a Form of Classical Nationalism?; Reject Notes (Poetry); The Puerto Rican Revolution (Part 2); La Revolucion Puertorrquena (2); The Need to Develop a Revolutionary Consciousness; Towards a Black Liberation Army; The Suicide; It Was Election Time in New York-Again; The Colonized of North America.
Open letter to Roy Wilkins Open letter to Roy Wilkins
Author: Huey NewtonPublisher: Black Panther Party National HeadquartersFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Huey Newton
Open letter/press release re: Wilkins's criticism of Newton's statement re: commitment of BPP to NLF-Vietnam
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1968Volume Number: Vol. 2-9 October 19Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Black Liberation Struggle Shows Progress
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1968Volume Number: Vol. 2-10 October 26Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Pig Power Structure Uptight: Revolutionary Students Confront Pigs Around the World
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol. 2-19 January 4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: 1969- Year of the Panther
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol. 3-2 May 4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Free Huey
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 4-24 May 19Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Heirs of Malcolm Have Picked Up the Gun and Now Stand Millions Strong Facing the Racist Pig Oppressor. Also Inside: Malcolm X Talks to Young People, Richard the Pig Hearted Nixon by Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information.