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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, specifcally AND/+, NOT/-, and OR operators. 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.
Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

The Student Voice

Discouraged by the lack of press coverage of the civil rights movement by the mainstream press, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or “SNCC”, began their own independent newspaper, The Student Voice. Published between 1960 and 1965 in Atlanta, the newspaper covered news of student non-violent protests, voter registration, efforts to cultivate local African-American political power and reported on on the general activities of the organization.

Documents

The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 12/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-23Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: MFDP Contests Miss. [Freedom Party] Seating; Grass roots Party Swells Membership; 3 Women Challenge House Seating.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 10/28/1964Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: Freedom Vote Is Open to All; Negroes Refused Place on Ballot; Freedom Vote Candidates with photos; MFDP to Challenge Congressional Seats; You Can Vote; Freedom Vote Candidates; Mileston Opens Community Center; For White Held for Attacks on Workers; Workers Arrested on Syndicalism Charge.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 9/23/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-22Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: 5 Miss. Negroes to Be on Ballot; Bomb Blasts Rock McComb; Valley View church Bombed, 23rd During Summer in Miss.; King gets 9000 in SW GA Election; Negroes run in Arkansas. Special focus on McComb, Mississippi: City of Terror.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 8/5/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-19Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: FDP Blasts Miss. Demo Convention; Focus on Freedom Schools in Mississippi; Updates on Shootings, Beatings, Bombings and Burnings.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 7/29/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-18Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: King, Lewis Spark Freedom Demo Drive; Mississippi Harassment; The Week in Pictures.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 7/22/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-17Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: In Greenwood 111 Arrests Mark Miss. Freedom Day; Church Burnings Still Unchecked; Selma: Town in a Reign of Terror; Mississippi Harassment; News Roundup.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 7/15/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-16Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: Civil Rights Law Compliance Varies (Over Sixty Arrested in Registration Drive); Selma registration, testing to Continue; Sanctioned Terror Hinders Compliance; Project Goes on Despite Bombing; Mississippi Harassment; Summer Project (Progress Report I); News Roundup.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc., AtlantaDate: 6/30/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-15Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: Rights Workers Still Missing (Schwerner, Goodman, Cheney); Orientation Prepares Summer Volunteers; Forman and Dullus Meet; Mississippi Harassment; News Roundup.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 6/9/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-14Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: Brutality Hearing Held in Capital; Miss. Negro Vote Curtailed in Congressional Primary; Riders Throw Bomb at Freedom House; Mississippi Prepares for Summer Project; Legal Barriers to Greet Workers; Sit-in Cases Near High Court Hearing; Employment Program Begin in Cambridge.
The Student Voice The Student Voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc.Date: 6/2/1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-13Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Student Voice
Includes: Negroes Run in Miss. -Four Run on Freedom Slate; Beating Marks Freedom Day; Court Nixes Peace Bond Requirements; Summer Project Readied; SNCC Worker Jailed with White Attacker; Additional Federal Judges Called in for Mississippi; Miss. Workers Face Police Harassment; News Roundup.