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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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 (February 1963) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (February 1963)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 2/1963Volume Number: Vol. 4-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Radio Free Dixie -On The Air The Following Commentary Is From A Broadcast By Robert F.Williams Over -Radio Free Dixie, Havana, Cuba. Re: Kennedy administration has nothing but praise for Dixiecrats in Civil Rights Report of 1962, Mae Mallory, Blacks beaten, shot, and murdered by racists in South, racists elevated to high positions in Washington; Reflection on Protest – re: racist whites have always tried to create an inferiority slave complex within Black people’s souls; Death Mania – re: war addicts of US in their military operations against Cuba are replicating what Nazis did in propelling Germans into nationalist chauvinism; Jimmy Hoffa and Integration – re: Teamsters forerunners in advocating equal work rights and pay for blacks and whites, asks why does Kennedy administration hate Hoffa; Protest Party? – re: voter registration should be encouraged, but so should a protest vote of no confidence; Monroe: City of Shame – re: encouraging people to attend racist frame-up trial of Monroe Defendants; Justice and The Crusader – re: aim of The Crusader is not to promote theory, but to promote action; Creeping Fascism – re: Wyoming becoming 20th state to adopt right to work laws barring Union shops; Caught Red-Handed – re: CIA plots to use counterrevolutionary bands to sabotage sugar harvest and terrorize Cuban population; book reviews; On the Monroe Scene re: frame-up victim Albert Rorie; A Double Standard of Justice – re: Dr. Albert Perry sent to prison for performing an abortion on a white woman in Monroe; poem The Road to Nowhere.