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 May, 1969
Pigs Get Press, Press Press Back
Archive Entry Date: 5/30/1969
The photographer Nacio Jan Brown found himself at the center of the story
Helicopter Drops Tear Gas on Sproul Plaza
Archive Entry Date: 5/20/1969
A helicopter spraying tear gas on demonstrators on the Cal campus
James Rector, Wounded on the Roof of Granma Books
Archive Entry Date: 5/15/1969
During a protest over People's Park, police shot indiscriminately at Telegraph Avenue rooftops
Newspaper Troubles
Archive Entry Date: c. 1969
With good reason, newspaper was the first to be recycled
College Students Dumping Litter Ceremoniously
Archive Entry Date: 5/6/69
DVC students hoped, at their Ecology Fair, to stir their fellow students' consciences
A Telegraph Avenue Bust
Archive Entry Date: c. 1969
The hammer comes down on a long-haired denizen of the Avenue