Black students at UC Berkeley, in solidarity with their brothers and sisters at UC San Diego held "Blackout 2010," a silent protest and blockade of Sather Gate. (Photo: Eddie Wright)
Black Graduation ceremony at Dwinelle Plaza, 1979.
UC Berkeley African American Studies Professor Bil Banks took James Baldwin through a library exhibit in Baldwin’s honor, during the author’s 1979 campus visit as Regents’ lecturer. (Photo courtesy of the Bancroft Library)
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking on the steps of Sproul Plaza in 1967. (Photo by Ron Riesterer)
Protestors march for the creation of a graduate program in African American Studies. November 6, 1987. (Bill Knowland, photographer. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.)