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San Francisco Museum Archives Social Activism

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We visit a hidden gem where the past is passed along, in the hopes of shaping a better future. The Freedom Archives in San Francisco's Mission District collects images and words of social activists from vinyl, tape and film, and then they restore, digitize and preserve them.

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