March 6, 1966: 58 years ago, March 6 1966, a dynamite explosion destroyed the San [...]
58 years ago, March 6 1966, a dynamite explosion destroyed the San Francisco national headquarters of the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs, a Communist Party-affiliated youth group, less than 48 hours after the federal government demanded the Clubs register as a “communist front” The DBC began as an anti-racist reading group …
March 12, 1966: 58 years ago, March 12 1966, the first issue of The Flatlands was [...]
58 years ago, March 12 1966, the first issue of The Flatlands was published. The paper, edited by a number of early civil rights activists and radicals from various organizations, reported on poverty, segregation, and racism in Oakland Its name referenced Oakland’s spatial segregation: working class people live in the …
April 9, 1966: 58 years ago, April 8 1966, Oakland police brutally beat Luther Smith and [...]
58 years ago, April 8 1966, Oakland police brutally beat Luther Smith and his family in their West Oakland home. Their case would play a major role in the successful push by activists to establish Oakland’s Citizen Police Review Board Shortly after the beating, Smith’s case was taken up by …
April 9, 1966: Headquarters of the Vietnam Day Committee Bombed
April 9 1966, the headquarters of Berkeley anti-war group the Vietnam Day Committee was bombed. Four VDC members were injured in the blast, which completely demolished the back side of the building and broke hundreds of windows on the block The incident came just over a month after a very …
May 3, 1966: 58 years ago, May 2 1966, dozens of students and faculty picketed the [...]
58 years ago, May 2 1966, dozens of students and faculty picketed the Assistant Provost for Research’s office at Stanford to protest the school’s classified contracts with the CIA, which was involved in various military and parapsychology research projects at the university Students handed out fliers detailing the department of …