October 19, 1966: 55 years ago, Oct 19 1966, over 250 students rioted at Castlemont High [...]
55 years ago, Oct 19 1966, over 250 students rioted at Castlemont High School and along East 14th Street in Oakland. Though public officials blamed the Ad Hoc’s school boycott, the riot was a response to the brutal beating of two Castlemont students by police the previous night A Castlemont …
October 19, 1966: 57 years ago, October 19 1966, a 3-day boycott of junior and senior high [...]
57 years ago, October 19 1966, a 3-day boycott of junior and senior high schools in Oakland began, organized by the Ad Hoc Committee for Quality Education. Instead of attending city schools, students, teachers and parents were encouraged to attend the Ad Hoc’s Freedom Schools Over 1,000 students across Oakland …
October 29, 1966: 57 years ago, October 29 1966, Students for a Democratic Society hosted [...]
57 years ago, October 29 1966, Students for a Democratic Society hosted the “Black Power and its Challenges” conference at UC Berkeley. Governor Brown and then-candidate Ronald Reagan unsuccessfully attempted to prevent Stokely Carmichael from speaking at the conference SDS had chosen to organize the Black Power conference after the …
December 17, 1966: 57 years ago, Dec 17 1966, San Francisco anarchist street theater and [...]
57 years ago, Dec 17 1966, San Francisco anarchist street theater and community group the Diggers held a parade on Haight St announcing “the Death of Money.” After the police arrested two participants, hundreds of marchers stormed the SFPD’s Park Station, demanding their release Emmett Grogan and Billy Murcott, radical …
February 22, 1967: 56 years ago, Feb 21 1967, Betty Shabazz arrived in San Francisco for her [...]
56 years ago, Feb 21 1967, Betty Shabazz arrived in San Francisco for her first public speech since the murder of her husband Malcolm X. She was escorted by an armed phalanx of 14 men from two different new organizations, both called the Black Panther Party Shabazz had been invited …