Documents Tagged ‘Ad Hoc Committee for Quality Education (AHC)’


Flatlands Attacked at School Board Meeting

Archive Entry Date: 11/5/66

Tensions flare as boycott organizers are accused of 'conspiracy'

Free at Last

Archive Entry Date: 11/5/1966

An extensive report from the freedom schools set up during the Oakland schools boycott

The Spark

Archive Entry Date: 10/22/66

The 'spark' of unrest at Castlemont High was police beating of a black female teen, The Flatlands reported

Black Power Is Being Tested in Oakland!!

Archive Entry Date: 10/18/66

The campus-based New Left organized in support of the Oakland public schools boycott

The Flatlands Profiles Agnes Woods

Archive Entry Date: 8/27/1966

Agnes Woods went from PTA President to community organizer, leader of the boycott of Oakland schools, and chairman of The Flatlands editorial board

Ten Lunches for Free

Archive Entry Date: 7/30/66

Under pressure, Oakland's Board of Education adopted a limited free lunch proposal -- but activists sought to expand it

Ad Hoc Bulletin

Archive Entry Date: 7/16/1966

The Ad Hoc Committee gears up for a boycott

The Flatlands Profiles Mark Comfort

Archive Entry Date: 3/12/66

In their first issue, The Flatlands profiled an experienced Civil Rights organizer (and future Black Panther)