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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.
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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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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Sarudzai Churucheminzwa's visit to Birmingham [1976] Sarudzai Churucheminzwa's visit to Birmingham [1976]
Date: 2/18/1976Call Number: Format: CompilationCollection: Zimbabwe
Contents: report, newspaper clippings, event program, and monograph. I. Report: Addressed to Sister Sarudzai and Brother Tapson describing Sarudzai's visit to Birmingham. During her visit, Sarudzai attended an evening event at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, participated in radio talk shows and interviews, and visited Black high schools. Report is divided into four sections: Preparations, The Visit, Conclusions, and Money. Letter signed by "Steve". II. Newspaper clippings: Two newspaper clippings scanned onto a single page. Article - the Birmingham Post-Herald, "African movement leader says a third of Rhodesia taken," by Cheryl Blackerby (February 16, 1976) includes commentary by Sarudzai Churucheminzwa on the topic of the ZANU army and advertises Churucheminzwa's lecture at University of Alabama at Birgminham. Editorial - "How It Goes In Rhodesia," covers the struggle for national independence in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). III. Event Program: "Women Hold Up Half the Sky: An Evening of Solidarity with the People of Zimbabwe". Includes Dance-poetry performance, introduction of Sister Sarudzai, "The Role of Women in the African Liberation," Message of Soldarity, Dance performance, "Implications of the Struggle in Angola," Announcement of planned ZANU support work in B'ham, Q&A period. IV. Monograph: Covers prisoner activism in Alabama.