Documents Tagged ‘Mary Ann Pollar’
Nina Simone Celebrated at Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 3/31/72
Rare footage of Nina Simone celebrated by Berkeley's mayor and the Urban League
James Baldwin Contact Sheet
Archive Entry Date: 5/3/76
Mary Ann Pollar and Baldwin appear here as comrades and co-authors of the Rainbow Sign
Rainbow Sign Presents Alice Walker
Archive Entry Date: 4/09/1976
Rainbow Sign was, like Alice Walker's real and imagined worlds, populated by uncompromising black women
A Rainbow of Poetry: The Berkeley Marathon
Archive Entry Date: 7/1/1975
Rainbow Sign sponsored the longest poetry marathon ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records
The Rainbow Sign Can Use Some Help
Archive Entry Date: 4/18/1975
With Nina Simone's help, Mary Ann Pollar clarified the Rainbow Sign's educational mission
The Rainbow Sign Can Use Some Help
Archive Entry Date: 04/18/1975
Mary Ann Pollar emphasized the educational mission of Rainbow Sign during a fundraising drive
High school senior thanks Mary Ann Pollar
Archive Entry Date: 1973
A high school senior and budding artist credited her graduation partly to help from the women of Rainbow Sign
Mary Ann Pollar invited by Black Women Organized for Action
Archive Entry Date: 11/29/1973
Mary Ann Pollar helped develop strategy to secure economic opportunities for local black women
Memo to You from Mary Ann Pollar
Archive Entry Date: August 1972
Pollar posed the question: "If Black people got together, what songs would they sing?"
Bill Smallwood on Mary Ann Pollar
Archive Entry Date: 11/4/1971
Mary Ann Pollar made an Oakland Post columnist want to "run up a flag signifying, Right On!"
Contact Sheet: Shirley Chisholm on the Campaign Trail
Archive Entry Date: 10/30/1971
The Rainbow Sign was a magnet for powerful black women with integrity such as Chisholm
Photograph of Mary Ann Pollar, Henry Pollar and Mary Jane Johnson
Archive Entry Date: August 1971
Kinship and camaraderie
