May 4, 1969: 55 years ago, May 4 1969, dozens of members of the Red Guard Party marched [...]
55 years ago, May 4 1969, dozens of members of the Red Guard Party marched into Portsmouth Square wearing field jackets and blasting “The East is Red” to interrupt a group of Chinese foreign students who had gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the May 4th Movement The Red …
May 7, 1969: 55 years ago, May 7 1969, members of the Red Guard, a Maoist group made up [...]
55 years ago, May 7 1969, members of the Red Guard, a Maoist group made up of working-class Chinese youth from San Francisco, gave a talk on Chinese history to a San Rafael High School history class at the invitation of a student. The teacher was forced to make a …
May 10, 1969: 55 years ago, May 10 1969, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed [...]
55 years ago, May 10 1969, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed the Safeway at 30th and Mission in San Francisco in solidarity with the United Farm Workers’ Delano Grape Strike. Safeway had refused to stop selling grapes picked by strikebreakers The CHF had been founded in April (2 months …
May 15, 1969: 55 years ago, May 15 1969, on what came to be known as "Bloody Thursday," [...]
55 years ago, May 15 1969, on what came to be known as “Bloody Thursday,” Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputies murdered James Rector when they opened fire with live ammunition on a crowd that was attempting to reclaim People’s Park in Berkeley, which had been fenced off that morning People’s Park …
May 16, 1969: 55 years ago, May 16 1969, about 500 Stanford students, organized by the [...]
55 years ago, May 16 1969, about 500 Stanford students, organized by the Students for a Democratic Society-led April 3rd movement, set up burning blockades and smashed windows at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Annex, which conducted military research for use in Vietnam The demonstrators were eventually routed by police. …