Archive for the ‘featured document’ Category
Three Friends Outside Rag Theatre
Archive Entry Date: c. 1971
An abbreviated moment of dress-up and dreaming
Rachel Krech with Her Dog on the Avenue
Archive Entry Date: c. 1971
A beguiling photograph of childhood play on Telegraph
Design for Independent Living
Archive Entry Date: 1979
An overview of this radical design manual and ethnographic study of Berkeley's crip culture
Letter From A Transsexual??
Archive Entry Date: 12/1/1970
Feminist editors ridiculed a trans woman—and excluded trans women from their vision of radical feminism
Runaway Roundup—For Revenge?
Archive Entry Date: 7/24/1970
The Barb punched back against police roundups of runaways
Runaway Crackdown Continues
Archive Entry Date: 7/18/1970
Police rousted 175 runaway teens to push them out of town — and found a telling postcard in one raid
Accessibility Survey of Telegraph Avenue
Archive Entry Date: 6/1984
A remarkable survey of the accessibility of Telegraph's businesses — complete with beautiful illustrations and smart solutions
Rags Magazine: The Hair Issue
Archive Entry Date: April 1971
The SF-based countercultural fashion mag, on "hair & the law"
The Better Earth
Archive Entry Date: 03/29/1970
An extensive profile of Ecology Action and its environmentalist vision, courtesy of the New York Times Magazine
Pete Seeger’s letter to Ecology Action
Archive Entry Date: 02/02/1970
The legendary folksinger had little patience for the "long-winded" style of the Declaration of Interdependence
Street Vendors on Telegraph
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
In a photo, a window onto the handicrafts revolution
A Pair on the Stage of “Rag Theater”
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
Flanked by a middle finger and question marks
A Dancing Circle at Night
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
A magical moment on Telegraph, captured serendipitously by photographer Nacio Jan Brown
The Street Scene Outside Rag Theatre
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
The motion and life of Telegraph Avenue, in a photograph jammed with contrasts
Smog Free Locomotion Day press release
Archive Entry Date: 09/13/1969
Ecology Action's parade highlighted a world of transportation alternatives
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
SOLIDARITY!
Archive Entry Date: 3/1969
A pamphlet that offered analysis of the TWLF position and of the police and campus counterreaction
Berkeley, Son of SF State
Archive Entry Date: 2/28/1969
An analysis—from a later Pulitzer Prize winner—of how the two TWLFs converged and diverged
How To Start A Neighborhood Recycling Center
Archive Entry Date: c.1969-1970
A friendly guide so that the environmentally conscious could start their own recycling center
The Red Square
Archive Entry Date: 1966-1969
Liane and her boyfriend lived in their apartment turned dress shop, making soup in the hallway and sewing in the bedrooms
The Krech Family’s Cameo in “The Graduate”
Archive Entry Date: 12/22/67
Director Mike Nichols used a well-known Telegraph Avenue couple to suggest a new loosening in American culture
Sunrise at the Oakland Army Induction Center
Archive Entry Date: 10/1967
One of Nacio Jan Brown's favorite photographs: capturing a tense moment in an antiwar protest
MLK’s Foreword to Neil Sullivan’s Now Is the Time
Archive Entry Date: 9/1/1967
Frustrated by the slow progress of desegregation, MLK found hope in Berkeley's school system
The Flatlands Profiles Bill Lowe
Archive Entry Date: 5/7/1966
Disillusioned by Berkeley's failed promises, Bill Lowe devoted his life to organizing workers and the poor