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Battle of People’s Park May 15. 1969.
Date: 5/15/1969Call Number: CD 584Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Live recording of the events that took place at People’s Park in Berkeley, California on May 15th, 1969. The battle is between the people of the community, who built it from a muddy parking lot into a park, versus the University and the Berkeley Police for trying to rip it down. Although the land was owned by the University, the people claimed it had been a muddy mess for years, and the people needed a park in South Berkeley. People were injured and killed by police in full riot gear, by guns as well as tear gas.
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