Archive for the ‘featured document’ Category
40 Years Later, Jodi Mitchell Reflects on Her Time on the Streets
Archive Entry Date: 12/25/2012
"I felt myself receding, disappearing behind a veil, ...fearing I may never find my way back"
An Oral History With Ericka Huggins
Archive Entry Date: 2007
Ericka Huggins's rich oral history spans the timelines of this project and describes the culture, curriculum, and structure of OCS.
Who Is An Ally And Who Is An Enemy?
Archive Entry Date: 12/1/83
Lesbians of Color came to Pacific Center to figure out how the movement might practice the solidarity it preached
Diaz v. Oakland Tribune
Archive Entry Date: 1983
A trans woman of color wins a case against a transphobic op ed columnist
Whose Fault?
Archive Entry Date: 08/81
How Cal bent science and the law to push out the Schools for the Deaf and Blind -- and how blind activists kept pushing back
We Won’t Go Away (documentary film)
Archive Entry Date: 1981
A British documentary crew visited Berkeley to capture the story of the disability rights movement
Recycling Board Game
Archive Entry Date: 09/15/1979
Cliff Humphrey suggested that you take your Monopoly board game and re-purpose it
Declaring Independence in Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: August 1979
A synthetic account of Berkeley's disability rights revolution, with the CIL at its center
Kathy Evans Reflects on the Ecology Center
Archive Entry Date: c.1979
Kathy served as its head for two decades, overseeing a huge transition
The Integral Urban Neighborhood
Archive Entry Date: c. 1979
From the visionaries behind the IUH: how to create an integral urban neighborhood
A Word on Words
Archive Entry Date: 1979
In its use of the term "crip," the landmark book Design for Independent Living captures the ethos of a revolution
The Ultimate City Garden
Archive Entry Date: 1978
The Time-Life Gardening Yearbook covered daily life at the IUH in glowing color
Asian Community Library: First in the U.S.
Archive Entry Date: 03/1978
Judy Yung described the ACL's services in its first year of operation and its vision for the future
Back to the City
Archive Entry Date: 3/17/78
The Berkeley Barb devoted four pages to the new "Back to the City", or urban homesteading, movement — of which the IUH was a perfect examplar
Correspondence between Martin Paley, Gerald Leo and Carole Migden about United Way Funding
Archive Entry Date: 11/17/1977
Pacific Center battled hard to obtain United Way funding
Lesbians of Color at 1977 SF Gay Freedom Day
Archive Entry Date: 6/25/77
Lesbians of Color represent Pacific Center at 1977 SF Gay Freedom Day
Educational R&D and Berkeley’s Experimental Schools (Vol. 1)
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/1976
What happened with Berkeley's 23 alternative schools? A 580-page study gives a fine-grained answer
A Prisoner of Sex Escapes Into Society’s Cage
Archive Entry Date: November 5-11, 1976
A profile of Steve Dain, a transgender man who was barred from teaching at Emery High following transition
Campus Grounds Accessibility Audit
Archive Entry Date: September 1976
The 1000-page report was the first campus environmental survey of its kind
Dear Amazons: An Open Letter
Archive Entry Date: 5/76
Shut out by the Berkeley Women's Center, a self-declared "separatist dyke" acknowledged Pacific Center's hospitality
James Baldwin Contact Sheet
Archive Entry Date: 5/3/76
Mary Ann Pollar and Baldwin appear here as comrades and co-authors of the Rainbow Sign
Gemini Directory of the Transgendered World
Archive Entry Date: 1976
A directory by and for trans people with listings from around the world
“Desegregation is Failing to Meet Education Goals”
Archive Entry Date: 03/17/1976
The Berkeley Gazette put a strongly negative spin on a superintendent's report on desegregation
Judy Yung Brings a Wealth of Experience (English)
Archive Entry Date: 2/11/76
East/West profiled its former editor Judy Yung as she launched the new Asian Community Library
Oakland Community School Begins Fifth Year
Archive Entry Date: 9/22/1975
An in-depth look at the OCS's curriculum and culture
Berkeley College Prep A Success
Archive Entry Date: 06/18/1975
A different narrative about minority achievement and experimental schools.
An Exploration of the Integral Urban House
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975-1980
Video from a tour of the Integral Urban House in its heyday
Fury
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A song about women's built-up rage, and how it led to a tense border stop
Tryin’ To Survive (the BWMC’s second album)
Archive Entry Date: 1978
The Collective's broadened their musical palette on their second album