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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.

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The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (October Special Edition 1964) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (October Special Edition 1964)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 10/1964Volume Number: Vol. 6-2 Special EditionFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Chairman Mao Tse-Tung's Statement of August 8, 1963 - Calling on people of the world to oppose imperialist U.S.’s racial discrimination, detailing treatment of Black people in U.S., speaking about March on Washington, talking about Kennedy Administration’s two-faced tactics towards Civil Rights struggles, links U.S.’s reactionary domestic policies with aggression abroad; Chairman Liu-Shao Shih’s 9/30/61 speech at 15th Ann. Of People’s Republic of China – cites China’s support for U.S. Blacks’ struggle against racial discrimination and for equal rights; 10/16/64 re: China exploding its first nuclear bomb, and Williams was in China for the test, Chinese government statement points out that U.S. signs treaty on partial halting of nuclear tests but continues to conduct those tests, and that China wants to break the nuclear monopoly of the nuclear powers, proposes a world summit conference where all countries can agree on complete prohibition and destruction of all nuclear weapons; Williams speaks on his first visit to China in 1963, lauds its transformation and achievements in only 15 years’ time.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1967) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1967)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 3/1967Volume Number: Vol. 8-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
USA: Stand By for Violence - re: growing white racist hate groups organizing for massive violence, “liquidationist” blacks more apt to denounce Black Power self-defense than these racist hate groups – call for organization and unity; The Plague of the Subversive Scarecrows – re: new breed of “Uncle Tom journalists”; USA: The Legacy of Scarecrowism - re: systematic exclusion of Black people from juries based on race and class, Blacks who get on juries must stop being “yes men” in court; The Good of the Earth – re: life in Cuba; Cuba: The Tragedy of No Proletarian Cultural Revolution – re: petty bourgeois has regained the reins of power in Cuba; What Color Unity? – in support of the role of revolutionary Whites in conditioning whites for future unified action with Blacks; Marzani and Munzell: Moscow Oriented Rogues – re: publishers of Negroes with Guns refusing to pay royalties to Williams; Agent at Large: Revolutionaries Beware! – denouncing D.H. Mansur, operating out of Tanzania; China’s Cultural Revolution – re: necessity for and objectives of Cultural Revolution.
Free Puerto Rico! March 1986 Free Puerto Rico! March 1986
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and SocialismDate: 3/1986Format: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement
Newsletter of the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism. Articles include "'Be All You Can Be' -- Resist the U.S. Military!"; "No Extradition -- Political Asylum for William Morales!"; a call to demonstrate against "Maxi-Control" prisons; "On International Women's Day".