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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Young Man with Drawing on Glasses
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
In an altered pair of eyeglasses, a skewed sense of humor
A Dancing Circle at Night
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
A magical moment on Telegraph, captured serendipitously by photographer Nacio Jan Brown
A Scene of Grooming
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
A young woman tends to the hair of a young man
Three Young Men on the Corner
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
A popular place to wile away the hours: on the sidewalk facing Moe's Books
The Street Scene Outside Rag Theatre
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
The motion and life of Telegraph Avenue, in a photograph jammed with contrasts
Girl with Egg
Archive Entry Date: c. 1969
The portrait that helped 'Rag Theater' click into place
Off-the-Street Fair Here
Archive Entry Date: 6/20/1969
The Telegraph Ave Summer Project brought health clinics, jobs and food to the street
Pigs Get Press, Press Press Back
Archive Entry Date: 5/30/1969
The photographer Nacio Jan Brown found himself at the center of the story
James Rector, Wounded on the Roof of Granma Books
Archive Entry Date: 5/15/1969
During a protest over People's Park, police shot indiscriminately at Telegraph Avenue rooftops
A Telegraph Avenue Bust
Archive Entry Date: c. 1969
The hammer comes down on a long-haired denizen of the Avenue
Putting the Street Together
Archive Entry Date: 8/23/1968
Telegraph Avenue's business owners and its "Commune" met for two nights to hash out their difficulties
The Red Square
Archive Entry Date: 1966-1969
Liane and her boyfriend lived in their apartment turned dress shop, making soup in the hallway and sewing in the bedrooms
Costume Design and Patterns Book
Archive Entry Date: 1967
Liane Chu took fashion inspiration from a broad range of world cultures
Telegraph Avenue, the Greatest Freak Show on Earth
Archive Entry Date: 1/1/1967
An archconservative candidate for mayor vilified Telegraph as "a magnet for perverts, dope addicts and degenerates"
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