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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.
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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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 Black Panther Black Community News Service [March 20, 1971] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [March 20, 1971]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 3/20/1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: To Eldridge Cleaver and his Conspirators From the San Quentin Branch of the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Aug 8, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Aug 8, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 8/8/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-6 August 8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald Political Prisoner 1970 San Quentin Prison Death Row. Also inside: Two articles by Kathleen Cleaver, Interview with Clara Lowa (Big Mama) Concerning Her Family's Unfit Housing Conditions (Seattle, Washington), Statement by Nguyen Minh Vy, Boston's South End, Horrible Housing Conditions Not Fit For Shelter of Human Beings (Cincinnati, Oh.), Struggle for housing and food stamps for Mother's in Indianapolis, Obituary of Black Panther Babatunde (Chicago,Il.) who was murdered by the FBI by being blown up on railroad tracks, SF Black Panther Community Health Classes, Racist Police in Winston Salem, NC. People's Bussing Program in Seattle, Wa. , Police and racist repression of the Black Panther Newspaper, Repressive Gun Laws in Maryland, Demands from Panther prisoners Rose Smith and Ericka Huggins of the Panther Connecticut 9, Tupamaros Attacked the Homes of Four Uruguayan Police Officers,
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Apr 17, 1971] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Apr 17, 1971]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 4/17/1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party and the Defection of the Black Panther Party from the Black Community Also Inside: Lead Poisoning Causes Mental Retardation (Black Children living in poor conditions suffer from Lead Poisoning St. Louis Missouri), Regan-Nixon Criminal Conspiracy to Disobey Law, Decent Housing Should be A Human Right not a Class Privilege (Chicago, Il.), California Trying to Lead in Welfare Cutbacks, Eleven Experienced Workers "Laid off" (Hunters Point Navel Shipyard San Francisco,Ca), "A Happy Employee is a Good Employee" (repression of workers at the Newcomb Hall Food Services at the University of Virginia) , Black GIs Revolt at Fort Davis Panama Canal Zone, Open Letter to Muhammad Ali, Wisconsin Assemblyman Introducing Bills For Poor and Oppressed People, Fascists Run Amuck in the Community of Las Vegas, Charles Bursey is Silenced at Susanville, California Concentration Camp, Convicts of Susanville, Unit! Statement to All Susanville Inmates, Racism Imprisons Blacks in E. St. Louis, Repression Breeds Resistance Freeport, Long Island, Soledad Seven Tear-Gassed, Arizona Sends Young Blacks to Death Row on Testimony of Half-Blind Witness,Position Paper No. 1 On Art of Survival for the Black Community By Emory Douglas, Cleveland Breakfast for Children program to Expand, Survival at the Baltimore City Jail, Interview with a Cuban Revolutionary (cont.), Where is Fred Bennett
Y.L.O. Newsletter (unknown month) 1969 Y.L.O. Newsletter (unknown month) 1969
Publisher: Young Lords OrganizationYear: 1969Call Number: Volume Number: vol. 1-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
Bilingual. Inside: Letters to Y.L.O.; You Can't Kill a Revolution; Revolutionaries Serve the People!; 'El Barrio Esta Despierto'; YLO In Revolution; YLO Festival; Los Nuestros; Free Clothing Program; Dear "Pig" Sidney; Letters to YLO cont.; "Don't Forget" Doña Trina; Puerto Rico: "Island Paradise" of U.S. Imperialism; National Action in Solidarity with Vietnam; New York Y.L.O.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Feb 27, 1971] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Feb 27, 1971]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 2/27/1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-5Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The San Quentin Branch of the Black Panther Party Opens! Also Inside: New York's Lincoln Hospital - Children's War - A Ward of Death for Our Children, We Want Decent Housing (Bronx, Ny), Free Medical Care Center in Chicago implementing a Preventative Health Care Program, Conspiracy Against Rev. Koen (Cairo, Ill.), 'Operation Nevada' for Welfare Rights, Pig Nixon's Cousins are on Welfare, "Huey Newton's Plush Pad" a Gross Distortion, A Letter from Attorney Lefcourt, Booby Seale and Ericka Huggins Trial, Pigs Attack Inmates of Baltimore City Jail, Attack on Black Community Information Center, High Point, NC., Weapon Safety, Fascist Repression Breeding in the South (police attack N.C.C.F. in Winston-Salem, NC.)
The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Sep 19, 1970] The Black Panther Black Community News Service [Sep 19, 1970]
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 9/19/1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention. Also Inside: A Family Inside Ugly America, North Korea/South Korea, Denmark Vesey, San Quentin Prisoners Kidnapped, The Black Panther Party A Force Against U.S. Imperialism by William Patterson, Communist Party, U.S.A. and Minister Huey Newton's Reply to William Patterson's Article.