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 ‘Performing Arts’
Jazz Festival After-Party
Archive Entry Date: 6/22/76
Music from midnight until breakfast, courtesy of the Rainbow Sign's afterparty
Photograph of Mardi Gras Indian
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970s
New Orleans comes to Rainbow Sign
Invitation to Black Mime Show
Archive Entry Date: 4/20/74
"a black face...which portrays through corporal silence the spirit of all human experience"
Rainbow Sign Presents Bobby Hutcherson
Archive Entry Date: 9/30/72
Electric vibes at the sign
Rainbow Sign Presents the John Handy Sextet
Archive Entry Date: 6/4/72
Handy and friends jazz up the place
Nina Simone Contact Sheet
Archive Entry Date: 3/31/72
Thirty rare images of the incomparable Ms. Simone
Nina Simone Photographs
Archive Entry Date: 3/31/72
Two entrancing photos used to publicize her Rainbow Sign appearance