Search Help

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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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

Search Results

The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Apr 17, 1971] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Apr 17, 1971]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 4/17/1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party and the Defection of the Black Panther Party from the Black Community Also Inside: Lead Poisoning Causes Mental Retardation (Black Children living in poor conditions suffer from Lead Poisoning St. Louis Missouri), Regan-Nixon Criminal Conspiracy to Disobey Law, Decent Housing Should be A Human Right not a Class Privilege (Chicago, Il.), California Trying to Lead in Welfare Cutbacks, Eleven Experienced Workers "Laid off" (Hunters Point Navel Shipyard San Francisco,Ca), "A Happy Employee is a Good Employee" (repression of workers at the Newcomb Hall Food Services at the University of Virginia) , Black GIs Revolt at Fort Davis Panama Canal Zone, Open Letter to Muhammad Ali, Wisconsin Assemblyman Introducing Bills For Poor and Oppressed People, Fascists Run Amuck in the Community of Las Vegas, Charles Bursey is Silenced at Susanville, California Concentration Camp, Convicts of Susanville, Unit! Statement to All Susanville Inmates, Racism Imprisons Blacks in E. St. Louis, Repression Breeds Resistance Freeport, Long Island, Soledad Seven Tear-Gassed, Arizona Sends Young Blacks to Death Row on Testimony of Half-Blind Witness,Position Paper No. 1 On Art of Survival for the Black Community By Emory Douglas, Cleveland Breakfast for Children program to Expand, Survival at the Baltimore City Jail, Interview with a Cuban Revolutionary (cont.), Where is Fred Bennett