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
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Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
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Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Documents Tagged ‘Oakland Economic Development Council (OEDC)’
OEDC’s New Power Base
Archive Entry Date: 6/5/66
The flatlands, as a region, were successfully demanding to be represented in the planning of the local War on Poverty
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
Oakland Baby, The Time Has Come
Archive Entry Date: 4/9/66
A San Francisco anti-poverty warrior cheered on the Flatlands-sponsored plan for community control
Flatlands Says (editorial on the TAAC walkout)
Archive Entry Date: 3/26/66
The Flatlands stood in solidarity with those who demanded 'maximum feasible participation' by the poor