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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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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The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec 26, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec 26, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 12/26/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-26Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Last Christmas??? Death to the Fascist Pigs Also inside: Oakland Police Department hires 23 year old Saundra Brown as a police officer, Bertha and Jay Sanders and their 11 children are evicted from home in Mt. Vernon, The People's Tribunal on Housing Crimes in NYC leads to the Charter of the People's Housing Coalition, Poverty on the rise in the USA, a report on the conditions of the New York Women's House of Detention by the inmates, Chicano Brother Offs Pig (Los Angeles), Maximum Security High School by the Students of Centennial High School (Compton, Ca.) , Eight Year old Black Youth Beaten By Racists (Philadelphia,Pa), We Have To Wage a Struggle Inside the Jails and Prisons Simultaneously With the Struggle in the Streets by Robert Williams, The Trial of Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, Bussing Program in Cleveland, Ohio, The Vietnam War and the US Business Empire, Medical Genocide in Black Communities, Prison Bulletin December 1970, The Oak Park Four (Jack Strivers, Booker T. Cooke, Ceriaco Cabrallis, and Mark Teemer accused of sniping a police officer in Sacramento, CA),
Don't Be Conned by Ruling Class Lies!!! Don't Be Conned by Ruling Class Lies!!!
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveFormat: ManifestoCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This article by the Bay Area Research Collective presents distortions of the SLA by the media then follows up with facts from SLA communique to prove the media wrong.
Those Who Do Nothing Make No Mistakes Those Who Do Nothing Make No Mistakes
Author: Martin Sostre & Weather UndergroundPublisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveFormat: PamphletCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This pamphlet is a response by Martin Sostre and the Weather Underground to the shootings of SLA members on May 17, 1974 in Los Angeles. Martin commemorates actions taken by the SLA and mourns the loss of those members. The Weather Underground also celebrates the SLA and pushes to continue the revolutionary armed struggle.
SLA Communique: Teko (William Harris) SLA Communique: Teko (William Harris)
Publisher: Symbionese Liberation ArmyDate: 6/7/1974Volume Number: 7-JunFormat: CommuniqueCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Communique around the death of the six SLA members in Los Angeles at the hands of the LAPD.