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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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 [Jan 4, 1969] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Jan 4, 1969]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 1/4/1969Volume Number: Vol. 2-19 January 4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: 1969- Year of the Panther
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec 7, 1968] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Dec 7, 1968]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 12/7/1968Volume Number: Vol. 2 No. 15-17Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Eldridge Cleaver's Free! Damn Pigs and Prison.
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.
Black Panthers' Historical Legacy and Political essence Black Panthers' Historical Legacy and Political essence
Date: 10/25/1990Call Number: Format: TranscriptCollection: Black Panther Party general
Transcript of a panel discussion with Benny Stewart (former Chairman of the Black Student Union at San Francisco State, on the National Black Panther Party Advisory Committee, and Executive Director of the Western Addition Project Committee), Shema Mckeeba (Claudia Grayson, Black Panther party Member, Co-Chairman of the Black Student Union at Castlemont High School), Ronnie Stevens (Member of the Black Panther Party, United Workers Union Member), Landon Williams (Black Panther Party member, City Manager of Berkeley), and Bobby Seale (Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party)