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Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials

Documents

Berkeley in the Sixties Berkeley in the Sixties
Date: 12/10/2002Call Number: V 111Format: DVDProducers: Mark KitchellCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The 1960’s come to life in this gripping film. Berkeley in the sixties caputres the decades event’s - the birth of the Free Speech movement, civil rights marches, anti-vietnam War protests, the counter-culture, the women’s movement, and the rise of the Black Panthers- in all their immediacy and passion. Dramatic archival footage interwoven with present-day interviews and 18 songs from the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The Band and Jefferson Airplane make “Berkeley in the Sixties “probably the best documentary on the sixites to date!” This is a DVD :) 117 minutes.
Michael Rossman Michael Rossman
Date: 5/12/2008Call Number: V 326Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Michael Rossman - Mario Savio interview - 1994 Mario Savio Memorial - 1996 In tribute to Michael Rossman who passed 5/12/2008
People's Park of Berkeley: Then and Now (1995) People's Park of Berkeley: Then and Now (1995)
Call Number: V 654Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Director Claire Burch presents a range of vies (past and present) of the People's Park in Berkeley, California. This was the location where the Free Speech Movement first took root in America.
Decision in the Streets Decision in the Streets
Call Number: V 732Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Decision in the Streets shows the tumultuous beginnings of the Bay Area civil rights and peace movements from 1960 to 1965. Segments include 1960's anti-HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) demonstrations; Hands-off-Cuba demonstrations during the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis in 1962 & 1963; the 1963 march of 15,000 people protesting the Birmingham church bombings; mass arrests of protesters sitting in at the Sheraton Palace Hotel over racist hiring practices; the 1964 anti-Goldwater Republican convention protests; the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, California, and more.