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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Abstract of Proposal to Build an Ecotectural House
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/1972
The origins of the IUH — Sim Van der Ryn's proposal for an "ecotectural" house
“Bowker Bumsout Blacks”
Archive Entry Date: 6/23/2972
A piece of Peoria history.
Free food all over Motown!
Archive Entry Date: 6/10/1972
Survival Day
Response to Beardemphl’s Anti-Sex Worker Sentiment
Archive Entry Date: 2/15/1972
Beardemphl's bigotry is smashed
Peace Banner Helps Sisters Bridge Sex
Archive Entry Date: 11/12-11/18 1971
Angela Douglas comments on exclusion in feminist spaces and the nature of war, displaying her own political faults
Contact Sheet: Shirley Chisholm on the Campaign Trail
Archive Entry Date: 10/30/1971
The Rainbow Sign was a magnet for powerful black women with integrity such as Chisholm
Invitation to Artist Reception for Rosalind Jeffries
Archive Entry Date: 10/25/71
From West Africa to the West Coast
Black Art Consultant E.J. Montgomery
Archive Entry Date: 8/19/71
A photo of E.J. Montgomery
Against the Gay Bars: The White Horse Protest
Archive Entry Date: 10/1970
The owners of the White Horse bar in Oakland and the editors of Gay Sunshine come in conflict
NACHO Protest
Archive Entry Date: 8/28/1970
The tensions between the homophile groups and Gay Liberation come to a head at the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations
Solidarity with the Black Panther Party
Archive Entry Date: 8/8/1970
A Letter from Huey P. Newton in support of Gay and Women's Liberation galvanizes the movement and causes tension with the Gay Establishment
Gay Sunshine
Archive Entry Date: 8/1970
A radical newspaper for the Gay Liberation Front, based in Berkeley
A Family Plays Dress-Up in the Berkeley Hills
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
Martha Krech took her daughter and Kathy Delacour on vintage dress-up dates
Photograph of Mary Ann Pollar
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
Ever stylish
Girls Holding Rainbow Sign balloons
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
Children were key to Rainbow Sign's project--the next generation had to love and be loved
Martha Krech at Caffé Mediterraneum
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
Rachel's mother at Telegraph's most popular hangout
Crash Pad Procedures
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
Berkeley Free Church's careful in-house instructions for the popular crash pad program
Mary Ann Pollar Photograph
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
Young, gifted and black
Mary Ann Pollar Photograph
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
a good caption- ?
The Tavern Guild’s Beaux Arts Ball
Archive Entry Date: 10/31/1969
Gay Radicals advocate for the decriminalization of gender non-conformity and clash with the homophile organizations
Free Church Crashes
Archive Entry Date: c. 1969
The broader specs on the Berkeley Free Church 'crash pad' program, which housed over 7000 people in its first year
Board Adopts New Program on Hiring of Negro Teachers
Archive Entry Date: 1/3/68
School desegregation in Berkeley meant programmatic efforts to hire more black teachers
Telegraph Avenue, the Greatest Freak Show on Earth
Archive Entry Date: 1/1/1967
An archconservative candidate for mayor vilified Telegraph as "a magnet for perverts, dope addicts and degenerates"
Vanguard
Archive Entry Date: 1965-1967
The nation's first youth gay liberation group located in San Fransisco's Tenderloin district
Statements to the California Advisory Commission of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Archive Entry Date: 6/5/66
In the wake of Watts, Flatlands contributors spoke on police abuses to a Civil Rights Commission
Notes on A Native Son
Archive Entry Date: 6/1/1966
The infamous homophobic attack on James Baldwin by Eldridge Cleaver, later Black Panther Party minister
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