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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.

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RF Williams at Great hall of the People RF Williams at Great hall of the People
Date: 8/8/1966Call Number: RFW 019Format: CDCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! RFW speech at Great Hall of the People on third anniversary of Mao's statement: “Black power means that Black men want to have some control over their own lives. To have a respected voice in public affairs that affect them.” “Black power is a dissident force challenging the racist white power structure that is so heinously exterminating the people of Vietnam and threatening the world with nuclear destruction.” Also covers: Other US liberation struggles (American Indian, Puerto Rican); International Solidarity Critique of LBJ, RFK. “Black nationalism is a survival reaction to white nationalism” opposition to Vietnam War and rejecting the Black role in fighting it. US as fascist nation.
Felix Greene interview Felix Greene interview
Date: 5/22/1966Call Number: KP 299Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Vietnam
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Felix Greene, a leading progressive journalist, about People's Republic of China and the situation in Vietnam.
On The Picket Line 12/1 On The Picket Line 12/1
Date: 12/1/1966Call Number: CE 760Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Audio recorded on campus during the 12/1/1966 strike. The beginning is at 3 3/4 IPS and consists of a speaker questioning the presence of the Navy table the previous day and the arrests. After that the audio switches to 7 1/2 IPS and consists of the sound of a bullhorn promoting the strike and the noon rally, then an argument between two strikers and a student who was opposed to the strike.
December 2nd Heyns Conference December 2nd Heyns Conference
Date: 12/2/1966Call Number: CE 766Producers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Audio from the December 2nd 1966 conference with chancellor Heyns
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.