Documents Tagged ‘Rainbow Sign’
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
Jazz Festival After-Party
Archive Entry Date: 6/22/76
Music from midnight until breakfast, courtesy of the Rainbow Sign's afterparty
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
Jayne Cortez at the Rainbow Sign: Berkeley ’75
Archive Entry Date: 1976
A tribute, in Yardbird, to Rainbow Sign's "sisterly feeling" and Jayne Cortez's poetic wit and power
“Cleo Overstreet, Novelist”
Archive Entry Date: 7/4/1975
example of R.S. elevating innovative artists whose work was under appreciated then and and too often forgotten
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
Depicting Black Struggle
Archive Entry Date: 4/11/1975
Elizabeth Catlett's art "celebrates her cultural heritage and protests her people's persecution"
Tuesday Menu
Archive Entry Date: 1974-1975
Rainbow Sign served food for the body as well as the soul
Invitation to Artists Reception for John F. King
Archive Entry Date: 6/9/74
Hearts, Spades and Infinity
Invitation to Black Mime Show
Archive Entry Date: 4/20/74
"a black face...which portrays through corporal silence the spirit of all human experience"
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
83 Black Mayors Feted Here
Archive Entry Date: 6/16/1973
Local black residents certainly benefited from meeting black leaders, but the benefits went both ways for politicians seeking support
Photographs of Dance Class at Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 1973
Groove lessons from an international professional
Invitation to Artist’s Reception for Larry Walker
Archive Entry Date: 11/26/1972
The perfect holiday gift?
Invitation to Huey P. Newton’s Book Party
Archive Entry Date: 11/19/1972
The Rainbow Sign positioned itself somewhere between assimilation and revolution--but it was all Black Power
Invitation to Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition
Archive Entry Date: 9/10/72
"the Black artist has a chance others don't to get out of the copout, freakiness and commercialism"
KPIX coverage of Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 9/9/1972
Invaluable footage of the club as it celebrated Black Arts Day with an Elizabeth Catlett exhibition
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?"
