The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
PROJECTS
The Flatlands’ War on Poverty
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
The Asian Community Library
The Black Panthers’ Education Revolution
The Integral Urban House
The Countercultural Kitchen
A Place for Every Body
The Secret History of Recycling
Pacific Center
Threads of Rebellion
Citizens vs. Developers
The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave
Berkeley’s Public Schools
The Rainbow Sign
The Third World Liberation Front
Transgender Berkeley
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Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
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Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Archive for May, 1966
The Flatlands Profiles Bill Lowe
Archive Entry Date: 5/7/1966
Disillusioned by Berkeley's failed promises, Bill Lowe devoted his life to organizing workers and the poor
Peter Albin in Jeanne Rose custom design
Archive Entry Date: 1966
A "Dr. Strange cape" for Big Brother's guitarist: one of Jeanne Rose's many fashion statements
Luther Smith vs the DA
Archive Entry Date: 5/7/1966
A radical Oakland attorney provides insights into a case of police brutality in Oakland
Weird Warriors in War on Poverty
Archive Entry Date: 05/1966
Campus "peaceniks, beatniks and smutniks" had infiltrated the War on Poverty, the US Chamber of Congress declared