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 January, 1972
Bowker Bumsout Blacks
Archive Entry Date: 1/29/1972
When the Cal administration installed its own chair of Afro-American Studies, dissenters went to the Rainbow Sign to strategize
Invitation to Artists Reception for “Black Contributors”
Archive Entry Date: 1/29/72
Calling black artists near and far
Beth Elliott Criticizes Beardemphl
Archive Entry Date: 1/1972
Beth Elliott destroys William Beardemphl
Mary Ann Pollar at the Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: c. 1972
Rainbow empress-ario
The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective (self-titled first album)
Archive Entry Date: 1976
The BWMC mixed folk, gospel, blues and rock as they powerfully gave voice to lesbian-feminist liberation