The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
PROJECTS
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
PEOPLE
Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
PLACES
Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Documents Tagged ‘experimental education’
Black Studies Loss Criticized at Berkeley High School
Archive Entry Date: 9/28/77
The head of Berkeley High's Af-Am program defended the integrity and openness of his program
Educational R&D and Berkeley’s Experimental Schools (Vol. 1)
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/1976
What happened with Berkeley's 23 alternative schools? A 580-page study gives a fine-grained answer
Malcolm X Celebration
Archive Entry Date: 05/14/1975
Berkeley's Black Studies program held an arts celebration to remember
Genesis
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/74
The experimental Genesis High School sought to temper hierarchies between students and teachers in a multiracial setting
Agora
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/74
An experimental school that sought to ground Berkeley high schoolers in democratic practice and activism
Alternative Schools for Minority Students
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/73
A lengthy consideration, from a civil rights law perspective, of Berkeley's Black House and Casa de la Raza
Asian Student Retreat
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/71
From Berkeley High's 1971 yearbook, a poem, portraits, and reflections on an Asian Studies retreat
Negro Educator Group Endorses Black House
Archive Entry Date: 3/2/71
The Oakland-based Black Aces articulated the rationale for Berkeley's "Black House"
Black Studies formed at Berkeley High
Archive Entry Date: 6/30/1968
Berkeley High established the first Black Studies program in the Bay Area
Negro History Taught at All School Levels
Archive Entry Date: 5/15/68
A full desegregation effort meant desegregating the curriculum too
$349,870 Approved by State For ’68 ESEA School Program Here
Archive Entry Date: 12/16/1967
Federal funds were channeled to programs for Berkeley's poorer children