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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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 Crusader Monthly Newsletter (July 1967) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (July 1967)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 7/1967Volume Number: Vol. 9-1 JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
The Great Conspirator's Conspiracy: Williams exposes absurdity of accusing RAM of an assassination plots against Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young, says the “plot” was contrived by the Monroe racist power structure to discredit those who advocate self-defense and resistance against tyranny; Statement of Williams on 4th Anniversary of Mao's August 8, 1963, Statement supporting American Blacks in their struggle against racial discrimination; Reconstitute Afro-American Art to Remold Black Souls – we must see artist’s role as a propagandist; Remember Muhammad Ali – for his courageous resistance to intimidation, that he is an “unexcelled” source of pride for Black people; Dixie Carpetbaggers Celebrate Conquest of Chicago – racist Monroe County lawyer’s ascension to Chicago Board of Trade; The New Left: Old Ideas in a New Front – re: white left seeking hegemony over black revolution; Positive Side of Chuck’s Negative White Helmet Gag; USA: The Coming Firestorm – prepare for the full fury of racist America in the summer of 1968; Cuba: The Enemy Within – re: the CIA in Cuba; China’s H-Bomb Explosion – powerful weapon of self-defense and giant step toward neutralization of nuclear weapons; Williams’s poem Black Madonna of Harlem Square.
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.