Pollar is seen here peeking out from one of Rainbow Sign’s Grove St.- facing windows.
The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
Mary Ann Pollar at the Rainbow Sign
Date: c. 1972
Citation:
Portrait of Mary Ann Pollar in Rainbow Sign Window. 1970s. Rainbow Sign Archive, courtesy of Odette Pollar.
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Founder of Rainbow Sign
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Mary Ann Pollar Photograph
–1970s–Young, gifted and black
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Photograph of Mary Ann Pollar
–1970s–Ever stylish
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Photograph of Mary Ann Pollar, Henry Pollar and Mary Jane Johnson
–August 1971–Kinship and camaraderie
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Bill Smallwood on Mary Ann Pollar
–11/4/1971–Mary Ann Pollar made an Oakland Post columnist want to "run up a flag signifying, Right On!"
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Mary Ann Pollar at the Rainbow Sign
–c. 1972–Rainbow empress-ario
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Mary Ann Pollar at Summer Art Sale
–June 1972–Black art for all
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Memo to You from Mary Ann Pollar
–August 1972–Pollar posed the question: "If Black people got together, what songs would they sing?"
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Mary Ann Pollar and Herman Kofi Bailey
–September 1972–Radical joy
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The Rainbow Sign Can Use Some Help
–4/18/1975–With Nina Simone's help, Mary Ann Pollar clarified the Rainbow Sign's educational mission
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Photograph of Mary Ann Pollar
–1980s–Still smiling in color
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