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
PEOPLE
Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
PLACES
Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Archive for February, 1969
Berkeley Strikers Battle Police
Archive Entry Date: 2/28/1969
Battles between strikers and police led to greater support for the TWLF among students and TAs
Berkeley, Son of SF State
Archive Entry Date: 2/28/1969
An analysis—from a later Pulitzer Prize winner—of how the two TWLFs converged and diverged
Demonstration to free Huey
Archive Entry Date: 2/27/1969
Free Huey
twLF Communiqué #8
Archive Entry Date: 2/24/1969
The twLF held the "first session of the Third World College," grounding their struggle in educational self-determination, not police brutality or the street struggle
Cal TA’s in the Soup
Archive Entry Date: 2/21/1969
The Cal TA union voted to strike after 17 TAs were busted on a TWLF picket line
twLF Negotiation Notes
Archive Entry Date: 2/1969
The strategy for negotiations with the University
Campus in Clouds of Tear Gas
Archive Entry Date: 2/1969
Police turned the Cal campus into a militarized war zone
The TWLF marching on Sproul Plaza
Archive Entry Date: 2/1969
Manuel Delgado, of the Mexican American Students Confederation, heading up a TWLF rally
Chancellor Heyns on the State of Emergency
Archive Entry Date: 02/5/1969
A crucial moment: Chancellor Heyns asked Governor Reagan to declare a 'state of emergency' and bring in police from elsewhere
Support from SF State Graduate Teachers Union
Archive Entry Date: 1/20/69
SF State's graduate teachers union wrote a letter in support of twLF