Archive for the ‘featured document’ Category
Foreword to Rag Theater
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Thomas Farber's poetic and sharply etched portrait of life on Telegraph Ave
East Bay Gay Opens New Center
Archive Entry Date: 12/19/74
When East Bay Gay opened its brick-and-mortar Pacific Center, it signalled a new inclusiveness
Tuesday Menu
Archive Entry Date: 1974-1975
Rainbow Sign served food for the body as well as the soul
Agora
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/74
An experimental school that sought to ground Berkeley high schoolers in democratic practice and activism
Waiting for Jerry Garcia
Archive Entry Date: 5/10/74
Sam Silver evoked the bold music on offer at the Keystone Berkeley, and the bold audience that welcomed it
Down and Out in Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 5/1974
A sober 80-page study of life on the street, arguing that 'hippies' were not a large fraction of the homeless
Invitation to Black Mime Show
Archive Entry Date: 4/20/74
"a black face...which portrays through corporal silence the spirit of all human experience"
“Fury” Performed Live on KQED’s “Open Studio”
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975
A video of the Collective performing "Fury" on KQED's "Open Studio" program
Peter Trier in the ARCH101 Studio
Archive Entry Date: 1976
In the revolutionary design studio, Peter Trier helps students confront stereotypes about disability
High school senior thanks Mary Ann Pollar
Archive Entry Date: 1973
A high school senior and budding artist credited her graduation partly to help from the women of Rainbow Sign
Bus Drivers ‘Sick’
Archive Entry Date: 10/73
A largely black and female workforce took action to achieve pay equity
Johnny Winter Frosted by Nixed Keystone Hype
Archive Entry Date: 8/24/73
A telling battle, over music promotion, between the guitarist Johnny Winter and the Keystone's owner
Robin Morgan Slanders Beth Elliott
Archive Entry Date: 6/30/1972
Morgan possibly tries to incite violence at West Coast Lesbian Conference
East Bay Gay Day Festival
Archive Entry Date: 6/17/73
Images of the queer festival held at Berkeley's Ho Chi Minh Park
Self-Guided Tour to the Integral Urban House
Archive Entry Date: c. 1973
Helga Olkowski's self-guided tour booklet for the curious urban homesteader
Photographs of Dance Class at Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 1973
Groove lessons from an international professional
Teacher Here Says Berkeley Schools Won’t Hire Whites
Archive Entry Date: 04/05/1973
Beatrice Tobias predicted "the end of decent public education"
Early Photo of The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: c. 1973
The dress of the Collective speaks to their persona and lifestyle
Libraries to the People
Archive Entry Date: 1972
Radical librarians argued that libraries needed to serve the liberation movements of their moment
KPIX coverage of Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 9/9/1972
Invaluable footage of the club as it celebrated Black Arts Day with an Elizabeth Catlett exhibition
People’s Housing Conference Flyer
Archive Entry Date: 8/13/1972
The People's Housing Conference brought together a spectrum of housing advocates
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
Archive Entry Date: 1972
The assemblage that, according to Angela Davis, marked the start of the black women's movement
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
A Troubling Smile
Archive Entry Date: c. 1971
An older man lifting up a woman's shirt, in a jumbled-up moment on the Ave
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Covers Weighty Subjects
Archive Entry Date: 10/30/1971
Chisholm and Mary Ann Pollar: women unbought and unbossed
Invitation to the Opening of the Rainbow Sign
Archive Entry Date: 8/21/71
An invitation that connected the era of Soul back to the turn-of-the-century
Charles Brown
Archive Entry Date: 1971
Brown brought his activist orientation and love of the arts to Rainbow Sign
Advertisement for ‘Truth and Soul’ clothes
Archive Entry Date: 1971
Who was behind these hip acrylic threads? The sprawling corporation Monsanto