This month, SJSU SAASC is highlighting Berkeley-based community archive, Freedom Archives. Freedom Archives is “a non-profit educational archive dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical audio, video and print materials documenting progressive movements and culture from the 1960s to the 1990s” (Freedom Archives, n.d.). Freedom Archive has an especially rich collection on the Black Liberation Movement, which “covers many militant organizations dedicated to the freedom for African-Americans, such as the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, and the Republic of New Afrika” (Freedom Archives, n.d.-a).
Pictured above: The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika, Dec 18, 1983. Source.
Other major collection topics include Chican@/Xican@, Gender and Sexuality, Government Repression, Indigenous/Native American Struggles, International Liberation Struggles, Latin America, North American Social Movements, Palestine, Political Prisoners, Prison, Puerto Rico, and Vietnam. You can explore Freedom Archive’s entire collection here.
Pictured above: A compilation of different authors writing about different topics pertaining to the role and conditions of women in Nicaragua before and following the Sandinista Revolution. Source.
Pictured above: Liberated Guardian, February 1973. Source.
Freedom Archives offers internships for people who having a passion for engaging with progressive and radical history. You can find more about Freedom Archive’s internship program here.
References
Freedom Archives. (n.d.). About. Retrieved on March 5, 2025, from https://freedomarchives.org/about/about-us/
Freedom Archives. (n.d.-a). Browse by collection. Retrieved on March 5, 2025, from https://search.freedomarchives.org/