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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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

Message to the Afro-American People from the Peoples Republic of the Congo Message to the Afro-American People from the Peoples Republic of the Congo
Date: 5/1971Format: MonographCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Black Liberation Army Delegation to the Peoples Republic of the Congo. Includes pieces written by Eldridge Cleaver and Ernest Ndalla. Includes Message to Afro-Americans from Ernest Ndalla First Secretary of the Congolese Workers Party; After Brother Malcolm by Eldridge Cleaver; Congo (Brazzaville): A Political History by Michael Cetawayo Tabor; The Number One Problem in Africa: Neo-Colonialism by Eldridge Cleaver; Afro-America and the Congo by Eldridge Cleaver. Also contains interviews with Ernest Ndalla, Pierre Nze, and Ange Diawara.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (May 1962) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (May 1962)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 5/1962Volume Number: Vol. 3-9Format: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Afro-Americans and Slick John Kennedy re: token integration a ploy to hold in check oppressed people who want to resist; Hands Across the Mason-Dixon re: Ohio governor extraditing Mae Mallory to Monroe, NC; The Disease of Bigots re: racists of US suffer from mass psychoneurosis; On the Monroe Scene re: Black people have no chance of receiving impartial justice in Monroe; The Day that Need Not Have Been – poem by Robert Williams; Can You Imagine – litany of injustices of the day including extradition of Mae Mallory; U.S. Bulls Indict Worthy re: first US citizen (a Black journalist) to be indicted for visiting Cuba; Excerpt from: The FBI in Peace and Cold War by William Worthy re: Canadian Mounties search for Robert Williams and Unitarian minister’s refusal to cooperate; May Day celebration in Havana