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 ‘UC Berkeley’
Whose Fault?
Archive Entry Date: 08/81
How Cal bent science and the law to push out the Schools for the Deaf and Blind -- and how blind activists kept pushing back
A Last Ditch Effort to Stop Schools’ Move
Archive Entry Date: 01/04/80
Teachers for the School of the Blind led media on a tour of the new site to demonstrate its unsuitability
Mistake Behind Move of Deaf and Blind Schools
Archive Entry Date: 11/07/79
A month-long investigation revealed that the rationale for dispossessing the Schools was based on hearsay, not fact
It’s a Teen-Age Thing to Do: Rocky Horror at Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 9/29/1978
Crossdressing becomes hot in Berkeley.
Request to Keep the Blind School Anywhere Near Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 1973
Letters between CSB advocate John Di Francesco and CA Dept. of Education's Wilson Riles
“Bowker Bumsout Blacks”
Archive Entry Date: 6/23/2972
A piece of Peoria history.
“Obvious Communication”-Betye Saar, Arthur Moore, and Cleveland Bellows
Archive Entry Date: 2/3/1972
A meeting of the minds for Black Arts Day
Newspaper Roommate Hunting
Archive Entry Date: 6/25/1971
Trans people need a place to live too.
Helicopter Drops Tear Gas on Sproul Plaza
Archive Entry Date: 5/20/1969
A helicopter spraying tear gas on demonstrators on the Cal campus
Early Recycling at UC Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 1969
Young people learning how to sort reusable materials
Berkeley Strikers Battle Police
Archive Entry Date: 2/28/1969
Battles between strikers and police led to greater support for the TWLF among students and TAs
Problems With Deaf-Blind Site Acquisition
Archive Entry Date: 08/26/57
UC's General Counsel was cool on the idea of UC taking over the site, for legal reasons