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 in 1961. By 1964, it was playing leading roles in the local Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and the antiwar movement (organizing one of the earliest anti-Vietnam War protests in October 1963) https://t.co/W5U4upEQK8

A month after the DBC headquarters was bombed, a similar explosion injured 4 anti-war activists at the headquarters of the Vietnam Day Committee in Berkeley after the group was singled out as “treasonous” by then-gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan https://t.co/fTdy8YVaSv

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