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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Telegraph Avenue
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Documents Tagged ‘California School for the Deaf’
Robbing the Blind
Archive Entry Date: 03/24/82
Disability Rights Activist, Ken Stein, speaks at a Berkeley City Council meeting
Whose Fault?
Archive Entry Date: 08/81
How Cal bent science and the law to push out the Schools for the Deaf and Blind -- and how blind activists kept pushing back
Building Savers Set to Bag Bear?
Archive Entry Date: 12/24/80
Property vs. Culture - the battle over Douglas Tilden's "Bear Hunt" Sculpture
School for the Deaf Holds its Last Berkeley Graduation
Archive Entry Date: 06/02/80
43 graduating seniors are the last memories deaf students being on the Berkeley site
Stay or Move?
Archive Entry Date: 01/80
A crucial Deaf organization in the Bay Area rallied its members to oppose the relocation of the school
A Coordinated Appeal to 60 Minutes to Investigate
Archive Entry Date: 12/23/79
Advocates for the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind reached out to 60 Minutes, lobbying for an investigative report
Shrouded UC Role in Deaf-Blind Removal
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/79
The second part of an exposé of UC Berkeley's scheme to take over the land
UC Designs on Deaf-Blind Site Span 57 Years
Archive Entry Date: 11/29/1979
Part one of a two-part exposé of UC Berkeley's scheme to acquire the land
Fremont Worse for Deaf/Blind?
Archive Entry Date: 11/07/79
A harsh irony: the new site, in Fremont, was more earthquake-unsafe than the old site bordering Cal
Mistake Behind Move of Deaf and Blind Schools
Archive Entry Date: 11/07/79
A month-long investigation revealed that the rationale for dispossessing the Schools was based on hearsay, not fact
Confidential Special Committee Memo on Acquisition of Schools for Blind and Deaf
Archive Entry Date: 12/04/57
UC wanted to acquire the site but knew it would be tricky, legally and in PR terms
Problems With Deaf-Blind Site Acquisition
Archive Entry Date: 08/26/57
UC's General Counsel was cool on the idea of UC taking over the site, for legal reasons