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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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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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.

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Gil Noble interviews Assata Shakur in Havana, Cuba Gil Noble interviews Assata Shakur in Havana, Cuba
Date: 4/10/1988Call Number: V 127Format: VHSProducers: Gil NobleProgram: Like it IsCollection: Assata Shakur
Documentary on Assata Shakur, in exile in Havana, Cuba with discussion of the Black Liberation Movement, history of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, her capture and life before and after. Documentary footage also includes Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Julian Bond Followed by a panel discussion hosted by Gil Noble with Dorothy Cotton, Lynn Jeffries, Gloria Richardson & Ben Chavis.
Algiers Tape Algiers Tape
Date: 3/5/1971Call Number: KP 036Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Black Panther Party general
Divisions within the Black Panther Party. Recordings from the Algiers section of the Party.
The Black Panther - Black Community News Service [12/21/1968] The Black Panther - Black Community News Service [12/21/1968]
Publisher: Black Panther PartyDate: 12/21/1968Call Number: Volume Number: VOUME II, NO. 18Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover title: "Pig Xmas Sham Endings". Main Story: "Panthers Dominate Montreal "End The War" Conference" Articles include: Vietnamese support for Panthers, Huey Newton defense, Oakland police, legal first aid,a letter from Shirley DuBois about Olympics protest, letters about Israel/Palestine, New York workers strike. Mission Rebels ( S.F. youth organization), Mace and DMSO, radical media conference, Black Cultural Nationalism, Pope/Vatican taxes, Italian student demonstration, Northern Ireland demonstration, New Zealand support for China, Mauritanian celebration, Thai people armed forces, monetary crisis, Belgian students demonstration, Syrian demonstration, Laotian battle, Turkish students anti-USA demonstration, Chinese views on US student demonstrations, Denver raid on Panther office. This edition includes poetry by Obatunde and, Iris Wyse.
Letter to Charlie Re: Eldridge Audio Track Letter to Charlie Re: Eldridge Audio Track
Author: Elsa Knight ThompsonPublisher: KPFADate: 3/11/1971Volume Number: 11-MarFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Eldridge Cleaver
Sending "Charlie" (Charles Garry) audio track of video sent by Eldridge from Algiers to NY.
Panthers in Algiers vs. National Party Headquarters Panthers in Algiers vs. National Party Headquarters
Date: 3/5/1971Call Number: KP 024Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Black Panther Party general
This is one of a series of recordings on the divisions/splits in the Black Panther Party in which the Algiers section of the Party demands the expulsion of David Hilliard and criticizes Huey Newton and other national leadership.
The Hapotoc Rebel Nov./Dec. 1976 The Hapotoc Rebel Nov./Dec. 1976
Publisher: The Hapotoc Family InternationalYear: 1976Call Number: Volume Number: November/DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Building for Winning by the Year 2000: Proposals for Bettering the HAPOTOC Vehicle of Struggle; Anti-Vietnam War Warrior: The Story of Lorenzo "Komboa" Ervin; the Political Status of Prisoners of War in Northern Ireland; Against Vile Prison Conditions, Torture, and the Death Penalty in Southern Ireland; more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [May 2, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [May 2, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 5/2/1970Call Number: Volume Number: Vol. 4 No. 22Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: 'The Black Panther Party is The People's Party and We Are Primarily Interested in Freeing Man' Also Inside: Collective Statement by the Connecticut 9 Political Prisoners; Let the People Speak to the United Nations, Racism Breeds Fascism in Orange County, The Black Man's Stake in Vietnam, And Now Cambodia.
The FBI's Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party The FBI's Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party
Publisher: US House of RepresentativesFormat: Government DocumentCollection: Black Panther Party general
Introduction; The effort to promote violence between the Black Panther Party and other well-armed potentially violent organizations; the effort to disrupt the Black Panther Party by promoting internal dissention; Covert efforts to undermine support of the Black Panther Party and to destroy the party's public image; cooperation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police departments in disrupting the Black Panther Party.