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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Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
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Documents Tagged ‘Ericka Huggins’
Radical Commitments: The Revolutionary Vow of Ericka Huggins
Archive Entry Date: 3/2020
A wide-ranging and deep interview — on gender roles, coalition politics, and high points of the OCS — with the Black Panther leader at the center of the OCS story
An Oral History With Ericka Huggins
Archive Entry Date: 2007
Ericka Huggins's rich oral history spans the timelines of this project and describes the culture, curriculum, and structure of OCS.
Community Pressure Wins Funding for Chicano School
Archive Entry Date: 2/19/1979
Solidarity--and the coalition building that came with it -- were integral to the OCS's philosophy
The Black Panthers’ School
Archive Entry Date: 03/08/1978
Though shadowed by criminal charges brought against the Party, the OCS still thrived
Panther Party School Gets Commendation
Archive Entry Date: 09/11/77
Huey P. Newton, Ericka Huggins, and Elaine Brown accepted a commendation from the state legislature
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
Bobby Seale Dedicates New Youth Institute and Son of Man Temple to Community
Archive Entry Date: 10/27/73
Community members gather to celebrate the IYI's new space
A Talk With the Students of the Huey P. Newton Intercommunal Youth Institute
Archive Entry Date: 05/08/71
Students of the newly founded IYI talk Panther ideology and history.
Huey P. Newton Intercommunal Youth Institute
Archive Entry Date: 03/27/1971
An eight-page newspaper spread on the IYI, with the message "our hope is placed on you"