Douglas Wachter

1. Students join the  Bay Area progressive movement

 

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 Oakland to protest discrimination in southern Paramount theaters

 

1961 -- Students participate in the San Francisco Cuban invasion protests

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2. Liberal and radical campus groups politicize the Berkeley campus

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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1966 -- UC Student Strike

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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. Working with 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 Bay Area peace Movement

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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
 

 

 

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1967 or 1968 -- Peace Demonstration in the San Francisco Financial district 

 

 

 

 

 

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. 1969, The National Guard invades Berkeley -- teargas, death and People's Park

1969 -- Teargas and death at the People’s Park protest, UC Berkeley and Telegraph Avenue

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6. The Third World Liberation Front:

 

1969 -- TWLF 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. Conditions 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:

 

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. Somehow, uniquely Berkeley
 

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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1970--Berkeley rent strikes

 

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11. Building an Activist Employee's Union on Campus

1966-70 -- AFSCME Local 1695

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12. The Fillmore and the Longshoremen's Hall, San Francisco

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1966 -- Trippin' to the music: dancing at the Fillmore and the ILWU Hall in San Francisco 

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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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1960s -- Political people: some famous, some not-so-famous