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 ‘Mark Comfort’
Reagan Aide Testifies to US Congress about The Flatlands
Archive Entry Date: 7/16/1969
The Governor's office saw The Flatlands as a case study in the terrible synergy between on-campus and off-campus radicalism
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
S.F. Blows
Archive Entry Date: 10/8/66
The Flatlands offered extensive on-the-ground coverage of the 1966 Hunters Point uprising
Tenant Terror
Archive Entry Date: 9/24/1966
Flatlands contributors worked to save a mother and her children from eviction
Weird Warriors in War on Poverty
Archive Entry Date: 05/1966
Campus "peaceniks, beatniks and smutniks" had infiltrated the War on Poverty, the US Chamber of Congress declared
Luther Smith protest rally flyer
Archive Entry Date: 04/67
Flatlands contributors joined with the Robert Scheer campaign in protesting a scandalous case of police brutality
Big Daddy O.H.A.
Archive Entry Date: 3/26/66
Richard York, later of Berkeley's Free Church, on a pitched battle between tenants and the Housing Authority
The Flatlands Profiles Mark Comfort
Archive Entry Date: 3/12/66
In their first issue, The Flatlands profiled an experienced Civil Rights organizer (and future Black Panther)