Douglas Wachter
My photographs of San Francisco Bay Area politics in the 1960s
1. Students get active in Bay Area politics
1960 -- Students support the Caryl Chessman execution protests in San Francisco
1960 -- UC Stiles Hall students investigate farm labor conditions in the San Joaquin Valley
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1960 -- Students make a trip to LA to support a civil rights platform at the Democratic National Convention
1960 -- C.O.R.E. pickets Woolworth’s in Berkeley to support Southern students’ lunch-counter sit-ins
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1960 -- Students join the protest against the HUAC hearings in San Francisco--also, here are two short videos of my testimony
1961 -- C.O.R.E. pickets the Paramount Theater in San Francisco to protest discrimination in southern Paramount theaters
1961 -- Students participate in the San Francisco Cuban invasion protests
2. On-campus politics
1960 -- Protest against mandatory R.O.T.C. on campus
1960 -- Early free speech rally
1961 -- Mass campus rally to support indicted free-speech activist Frank Wilkinson
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1958-1956 -- SLATE -- history, elections, 1962 summer conference
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1968 --The Eldridge Cleaver teaching controversy -- Moses Hall Sit-In and Rally
1968 -- The Vietnam “Commencement Rally” in Sproul Plaza
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1969 -- Irish independence activist Bernadette Devlin speaks at UC
1960s -- Political tables on campus
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3. The black and brown communities
1963, 1964 --Youth For Jobs
1963 -- Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination in Hiring: Mel's Drive-in
1964 -- Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination in Hiring: San Francisco Sheraton Palace Hotel
1964 -- Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination in Hiring: Oakland Tribune Newspaper
1964 -- The S.F. Area-2 community organizing action
1965 -- Welfare rights organization in Oakland.
1965 -- Protesting Oakland Police discrimination in hiring
1967 -- The “Police and the Ghetto” meeting at San Francisco’s Hall of Flowers
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1970 -- Rallying to the defense of "Los Siete de la Raza" in San Francisco
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4. The Bomb and the Vietnam War
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1961 -- SF Easter Peace March
1962 --“No More Hiroshimas” SF protests
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1965 -- Vietnam Day march to the Berkeley/Oakland border
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1967 -- Support rally for G.I. Ron Lockman
1967-- Peace Torch Marathon in San Francisco
1967 -- Stop The Draft Week rally at UC Berkeley, and the Oakland Induction Center shutdown
1967 or 1968 -- Peace Demonstration in the San Francisco Financial district
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1968 -- San Francisco G.I. march to bring the troops home
1970 -- Greek Theater Convocation at UC to protest expansion of Vietnam War into Cambodia
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5. People's Park riots
1969 -- Teargas and death at the People’s Park protest, UC Berkeley and Telegraph Avenue
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6. The Berkeley ethnic studies strike
1969 -- Third World Liberation Front strike at UC
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7. Black Power
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1966 -- UC hosts “Black Power Rally” and panel of activists, featuring Stokely Carmichael
1969 -- The Black Panther Party’s school for children
1969 -- The Black Panther Party's “United Front Against Fascism” conference in Oakland
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8. Poverty in Oakland
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1966 -- Photographs of West Oakland taken for the Robert Scheer campaign
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9. The Jim Crow South
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1964 -- Photo journal from Alabama and Mississippi with Harvey Richards while making a fund-raising film for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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10. We are Berkeley, strong and spiritual
1966 -- Anti-war Jr. high school teens march on the streets of Berkeley and speak at the Berkeley City Council
1966 -- UC Berkeley buskers and meditation group
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11. Building an Activist Union on Campus
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12. Dancing at the Fillmore
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1966 -- Trippin' to the music: dancing at the Fillmore and the ILWU Hall in San Francisco
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13. The public face of the Communist Party
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1961 -- People's World Benefit with Pete Seeger
1961 -- CP spokesman and theoretician Herbert Aptheker speaks at Stiles Hall
1961 -- Some of the "People’s World" staff
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1963 -- Northern California CP Chairman Mickey Lima speaks on campus
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14. Portraits
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