The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
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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
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Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
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Documents Tagged ‘Agnes Woods’
Free at Last
Archive Entry Date: 11/5/1966
An extensive report from the freedom schools set up during the Oakland schools boycott
Corporation of the Poor: Chance for Unity
Archive Entry Date: 11/5/66
Flatlands organizers rejuvenate, strategize at wooded retreat
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
Flatlands Says (editorial on the TAAC walkout)
Archive Entry Date: 3/26/66
The Flatlands stood in solidarity with those who demanded 'maximum feasible participation' by the poor