University of California, Berkeley — Students — History
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Sproul Hall sit-in documentation 1968 (Part 2 of 2)
Actuality of the anti-racism demonstration at the Berkeley campus. In the fall of 1968, students at University of California at Berkeley invited Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver to come to U.C. Berkeley to teach a course on racism. The Regents of the University of California and Governor Ronald Reagan blocked this movement and sent down…
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Karate : women’s liberation demonstration.
Members of Women’s Liberation, determined to impress the University of California, Berkeley officials of their seriousness, staged a demonstration at Harmon Gymnasium, the school’s men’s gym, demanding to be allowed to enter the class in Karate. The protestors were met by the police who refused to allow them into the room where the course was…
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Sproul Hall sit-in documentation 1968 (Part 1 of 2)
Actuality of the anti-racism demonstration at the Berkeley campus. In the fall of 1968, students at University of California at Berkeley invited Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver to come to U.C. Berkeley to teach a course on racism. The Regents of the University of California and Governor Ronald Reagan blocked this movement and sent down…
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Free speech movement : sounds and songs of the demonstrations / produced by Stan Axelrod.
The documentary on the Free Speech Movement of the sixties begins with a sit-in of 6,000 students at the administration building, Sproul Hall. Various speakers voice their concerns and opinions regarding students’ rights and the faculty’s involvement. Recorded is the arrest of Jack Weinberg, a recent graduate and civil rights activist. Mario Savio speaks to…