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, 1971
Asian Student Retreat
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/71
From Berkeley High's 1971 yearbook, a poem, portraits, and reflections on an Asian Studies retreat
The Role of the Church and the Survival Program
Archive Entry Date: 5/15/1971
Father Earl Neil delineated how the Black Panthers could tap into the historic power of the Black church
A Talk With the Students of the Huey P. Newton Intercommunal Youth Institute
Archive Entry Date: 05/08/71
Students of the newly founded IYI talk Panther ideology and history.
“A Middle Interlude: What They’re Saying About Makeup on Men.”
Archive Entry Date: June 1971
"One unisexual person, a boy, in makeup is more revolutionary than any bombing."
Charles Brown
Archive Entry Date: 1971
Brown brought his activist orientation and love of the arts to Rainbow Sign
E.J. Montgomery
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
Black Art consultant extraordinaire
Asian Studies Program Summary
Archive Entry Date: 1971
"It is indeed a minor miracle the Division has survived its first year."
Corner of Dwight and Dana
Archive Entry Date: c. 1971
A historic intersection remembered as the site of experimental ramping by two access revolutionaries