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 ‘Black Panthers’
Reflections of a Former Oakland Public School Parent
Archive Entry Date: Summer 1997
Former OCS teacher Jonina Abron discusses her daughter's experience with OUSD
The Black Panthers’ School
Archive Entry Date: 03/08/1978
Though shadowed by criminal charges brought against the Party, the OCS still thrived
East Oakland Ghetto Blooms with Growth of Black Panther School
Archive Entry Date: 02/05/76
OCS educators taught how, not what, to think
Intercommunal Youth Institute Students Stage “A Children’s November”
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/74
Students offered a radical re-working of the Thanksgiving story at the IYI Thanksgiving play
Community Learning Center
Archive Entry Date: c. 1973
The Community Learning Center aimed to be a model for communal education
Hallelujah! The People’s Revolutionary Gospel
Archive Entry Date: 12/18/1971
Father Earl Neil dilated on his time in the trenches of the Civil Rights Movement and his path to joining up with the Black Panthers
The Samuel L. Napier Intercommunal Youth Institute
Archive Entry Date: 1971
Students at the IYI were encouraged to criticize the school and help plan curriculum
Summer: Where Does the Trouble Begin
Archive Entry Date: 6/15/1967
As the Black Panther Party mobilized against police brutality, The Flatlands assessed fears of a "long hot summer" in Richmond
Luther Smith vs the DA
Archive Entry Date: 5/7/1966
A radical Oakland attorney provides insights into a case of police brutality in Oakland
Flatlands editorial on the Luther Smith case
Archive Entry Date: 04/23/1966
Hard-hitting coverage of a brutal beating of a black Oaklander in his home, and an editorial response