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1950: Harry Hay, a teacher, labor activist, and Communist organizer, founds the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles, the earliest thriving "homophile" organization in the United States. The name of the group comes from an old Italian tradition of masquerade that doubled as political critique - the masks hide the faces of the protestors, effectively rendering them anonymous. The group employs a secret society structure as a preventive measure against the police harassment faced by lesbians and gays in the 1950s. [Clendinen, p. A33]
Hope Along the Wind: The life of Harry Hay Media Resources Center Video/C 9785 Trailer for Hope Along the Wind Gay Sex Before Zippers (Interview with Harry Hay) (Internet Moving Image Archive)Photo of Harry Hay March 17, 1950: A Washington Post editorial expounds on "the several good reasons why persons of...[the homosexual] proclivity should be excluded from Government service," particularly "his suseptibility to blackmail" [i.e. by communists and other disloyal to the US]. [WP, 3/17/1950]
May 20, 1950: A resolution for a "full-scale investigation of homosexuals and other perverts in Federal service" is filed in the Senate. The investigation is approved on May 25th. [WP, 5/20/1950; WP, 5/25/50]
1951: Edward Sagarin, a member of the Mattachine Society writing under the pseudonym Donald Webster Cory, publishes The Homosexual in America; A Subjective Approach. , the first widely read non-fiction book in the United States to present knowledgeably and sympathetically the plight of the homosexual as told from the inside rather than the outside.
Cory, Donald Webster, pseud. "The Homosexual in America; A Subjective Approach. New York, Castle Books [1960] (Moffitt HQ76 .C6 1960; Main (Gardner) Stacks HQ76 .C6 1960)"Edward Sagarin." In: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture
January 1953: The first issue of ONE, the Mattachine Society's monthly newsletter, is published and distributed nationally. The newsletters are routinely seized by the U.S. Post Office on the grounds of obscenity. The founders of One, Inc. sue the Postmaster of the City of Los Angeles, Otto K. Olesen. The court rules initially with the USPS, as does the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1958, however, an appeal by ONE to the Supreme Court is accepted. ONE Inc. v. Olesen marks the first time in US legal history that the Supreme Court explicitly ruled on homosexuality. [Bullough, p. 108]
October 19, 1955: Frustrated by the largely male makeup of the Mattachine Society, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon form the Daughters of Bilitis in Los Angeles, the first exclusively lesbian organization in the United States. [Gallo, p. 5]
No Secret Anymore: The Times Of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon: DVD 2431
December 1955: Mattachine Society of New York is founded by Tony Segura and Sam Marford. [Eisenbach, p. 26]
October 1956: The first issue of the Daughter of Bilitis' newsletter, The Ladder, is produced. Phyllis Lyon edits the magazine as "Ann Ferguson" for the first few months before using her own name to discourage secrecy; however, many of the magazine's contributors use pseudonyms or initials. [Gallo, pp. 21-22]
1957: Prescott Townsend forms the Boston chapter of the Mattachine Society. Throughout the '50s, Townsend also convened meetings at his residence/bookstore at 75 Phillips St., Boston. [Bullough, pp. 41-47]
1957 The word "Transsexual" is coined by U.S. physician Harry Benjamin;
Benjamin, Harry. "The Transsexual Phenomenon (1966)." Reprinted in: Sexual metamorphosis: an anthology of transsexual memoirs / edited by Jonathan Ames. New York : Vintage, 2005. [full-text available online (UCB users only); print: Main (Gardner) Stacks HQ77.7 .S49 2005)
The Homosexual in Our Society
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1960: The New York City Police begin a systematic crackdown on gay bars, pending an investigation into corruption in the State Liquor Authority (SLA). Prior to 1959, "more than forty" gay bars operated openly in the city; as a result of the NYPD crackdown, all but one - the bar in the Cherry Lane Theater - loses its liquor license. The widespread state-sanctioned closure of gay bars causes a number of Mafia-owned establishments to open in their wake. One such bar, Julius' in the West Village (still in business today), enforces a policy whereby customers have to sit and face the bar while drinking and refuses to serve anyone who openly declares their homosexuality. [Carter, pp. 47-49]
1961: Jose Sarria, a regular at the Black Cat gay bar in San Francisco known for his campy renditions of arias from Bizet's Carmen, campaigns for a spot on the city's Board of Supervisors. Running on the platform that "gay is good", Sarria manages to garner an impressive 5600 votes. It is the first time that an out gay individual runs for public office. [Boyd, pp. 20-24]
Wikipedia article on The Black Cat
January 1, 1965: The largest confrontation yet between gay and lesbian people and the police occurs at a fund-raising ball in San Francisco, hosted by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH). Two hundred gay and lesbian partygoers at California Hall on Polk Street are met by vice squad officers stalking the premises and photographing partygoers in what the Mattachine Review called "one of the most lavish displays of police harassment known in recent times". Unbeknownst to police at the time, the event becomes a galvanizing force for gay activists in the Bay Area and establishes San Francisco as a locus for gay rights organization and as a haven for LGBT people. [Bullough, p. 75; d'Emilio, pp. 193-194]
April 17, 1965: The East Coast Homophile Organization launches the first of a series of protests in 1965 at the White House. They revisit the White House two more times, in addition to stops at the United Nations and Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
May 30, 1965: Twelve members of the Mattachine Society (nine men and three women), picket the White House in protest of government discrimination against homosexuals, particularly in the military and government service. [NYT, 5/30/1965]
1966: The North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (NACHO, pronounced nay-ko), an umbrella organization consisting of homophile groups from around the country, including the Mattachine Society, Daughters of Bilitis and ECHO, forms.
January 21, 1966: Time Magazine publishes an anonymous two-page screed entitled "The Homosexual in America". The article attacks homosexuality as "a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life. As such it deserves fairness, compassion, understanding and, when possible, treatment. But it deserves no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste-and, above all, no pretense that it is anything but a pernicious sickness." 
March 7, 1966: CBS airs the first network documentary dealing with the topic of homosexuality as an installment of its CBS Reports series. Three years in the making, "The Homosexuals" went through two producers and multiple revisions. The episode included interviews with several gay men, psychiatrists, legal experts and cultural critics, interspersed with footage of a gay bar and a police sex sting. "The Homosexuals" garnered mixed critical response. The network received praise from some quarters and criticism from others for even airing the program.
CBS Reports: The Homosexuals Media Resources Center DVD 8569The Homosexuals Wikipedia article"American Television, News" In: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer CultureNew York Times ad for this program"TV: CBS Reports on Homosexuality." [NYT, 3/8/67]
April 21, 1966: The Mattachine Society stages a "sip-in" at Julius' (cf. 1960 on the timeline). Members of the Society send telegrams to the press declaring their intention to walk into the Ukrainian-American Village Restaurant on the Lower East Side to demand service as a protest against bars refusing to cater to gay patrons. The restaurant's manager gets wind of the event and closes preemptively to avoid spectacle; after trying a number of other bars where they do receive service - to their chagrin - the Mattachine members settle on Julius'. While the management is amenable to serving them on account of already-existent troubles with their liquor license, Dick Leitsch convinces the bar to play along in exchange for Mattachine-New York's legal services. The members file suit with the State Liquor Authority the following day. While the SLA denies any responsibility in the matter and maintains that homosexuals are allowed to be served in bars (provided they are not acting "disorderly"), the "sip-in" is a key step in the Society's fight to prevent police from using entrapment to arrest gay people and deprive bars of their liquor licenses. [Carter, p. 49-51; Jackson, 2008]
Simon, Scott. "Remembering a 1966 'Sip-In' for Gay Rights." NPR.org, June 28, 2008Photo of patrons at Julius' [via On This Gay Day blog]
August 1966: A riot breaks out at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. The bar, a favorite of transgendered people who were otherwise outcasts in the gay and lesbian community, had recently come under new management that attempted to discourage transgendered patronage of the 24-hour restaurant and bar. As such, police harassment of customers was fairly common. The night of the riot, a transvestite responds to a policeman's forcible attempt to remove her from the premises by throwing a cup full of hot coffee in his face. The other customers in the cafe begin to throw cups, plates and silverware at the police officers. Angry rioters break every window in the cafeteria. A picket line forms outside of Compton's the following night, comprising "drag-queens, hair fairies, conservative Gays and hustlers"; the newly replaced windows are broken a second time. [Carter, pp. 109-110]
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria: Media Resources Center DVD 5740Compton's Cafeteria commemoration (YouTube)January 1, 1967: Plainclothes police officers infiltrate the Black Cat Tavern in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles on New Year's Day after many patrons embrace and kiss to celebrate the new year. Fourteen patrons and bartenders are beaten and arrested. Two of the men are convicted under California state law for kissing and are registered as sex offenders. The following month, hundreds of Los Angeles denizens protested the state's unfair treatment of homosexuals outside of the Black Cat. The raid and its protest spawned the creation of a newsletter, the Los Angeles Advocate (today known simply as The Advocate, a monthly magazine). (On November 7, 2008, the site of the Black Cat was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument) [Baldwin, p. 28-30; LAT, 11/16/2008 ]
1967: The National Institute of Mental Health invites Dr. Evelyn Hooker to head the Task Force on Homosexuality. A year later, she publishes a report urging that sexual behavior between consenting adults be decriminalized and that discrimination against gays in public employment be decriminalized. In the '50s, Hooker had attracted some controversy in the scientific community for suggesting that there are no psychological differences between homosexual and heterosexual men and, thus, that homosexuality was not a mental illness. [Shneidman, p. 480-1; Minton]
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker. Media Resources Center Video/C 3430
Herb Kutchins, a professor of social work and, moderates a discussion with members of Conversion Our Goal (COG), the first transsexual support group in the United States, and Elliott Blackstone, an SFPD sergeant and long-time advocate for LGBT rights.
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Charles Pitts from the New Symposium interviews "Jay Perry", a 19-year-old hustler, or male prostitute who offers sexual services to other males, whom the host met one evening while cruising on Christopher Street. "Jay" reflects on why he decided to become a hustler, the hazards of his chosen profession, sado-masochistic roles in hustling and his own sexual identity. Broadcast: WBAI, 30 Sept. 1968.
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A radio documentary that features oral histories of those involved in the riots at Stonewall Inn, the gay bar in Greenwich Village, that sparked the gay rights movement in the United States. Both police and Stonewall Inn patrons are interviewed.
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Charles Pitts and Pete Wilson host a discussion with members of the Gay Liberation Front, the radical homosexual organization that formed shortly after the Stonewall riots. The GLF refused to permit the hosts of the New Symposium to tape one of their actual meetings, so the interview here was recorded specifically for WBAI in a member's apartment. The members discuss the history, origins and activities of the GLF, as well as the media portrayal of homosexuals.
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Part 2 of the interview with anonymous members of the GLF. Among the topics discussed in the second half of this interview are the social contexts of homosexuality, negative reactions within the gay community to "gay power" movements, and the role of gay bars in the movement. Taped on Sunday, Sept 7th, 1969(?).
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Technical Sgt. Leonard Matlovich interviewed by Ronald Gold on "Gay Alternatives". Matlovic formally declared his homosexuality to his commanding officer on March 7, 1975 with the intent to fight the customary discharge that usually attends such a declaration. In spite of an excellent military record, he was declared unfit to serve by a military panel and was handed a dishonorable discharge six months after his declaration. Time Magazine placed Matlovich on the cover of their Sept. 8, 1975 issue with the caption "I Am a Homosexual", marking the first time the gay rights movement earned the cover of a national newsweekly. In 1980 he finally won reinstatement, which he declined; the Air Force upgraded him to an honorable discharge. The show deals only briefly with Matlovic's lawsuit, focusing instead on his youth as a conservative, right-wing soldier and how the development of a "gay consciousness" changed his viewpoints about race, gender and country. Matlovich died of AIDS in 1988; on his tombstone is written: "When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
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Eleanor Cooper, spokeswoman for Lesbian Feminist Liberation, Arthur Goodman, president of the Gay Activists' Alliance (GAA), and Nathalie Rockhill, legislative director and national coordinator of the National Gay Task Force summarize post-Stonewall LGBT political events. The GAA's City Council Bill, anti-sodomy laws and the GLBT community's awareness of political events are all discussed in this program from 1975, part of the "Gay Alternatives" series hosted and moderated by Ronald Gold.
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Cathy White, Bernadette Smith, Richard Persky, members of Gay Youth in NYC, discuss their experiences as gay and lesbian youths. Among the topics discussed are the effect of homophobia on LGBT youth; societal expectations of masculinity/femininity and homosexuality; the choice of being gay; relationships between homosexuals and heterosexuals; gay bars; and racism. Ronald Gold moderates.
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New directions from the Gay Left Sept. 4-6, 1976
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May 28, 1977: The Boarding House night club in San Francisco holds an Anita Bryant look-alike contest sponsored by the Dade County Defense fund (see June 7, 1977). The contest judges are San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, and Margot St. James, head of COYOTE, an organization supporting the rights of prostitutes. [LAT, 6/2/1977]
June 7, 1977: Residents of Miama, Florida vote 2 to 1 to repeal a law that protects homosexuals from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodation. Repeal forces had been led by Anita Bryant, a pop singer, television personality, and spokeswoman for the orange juice industry. Speaking to the press after the vote, Bryant said. "All America and all the world will hear what the people have said, and with God's continued help, we will prevail in our fight to repeal similar laws throughout the nation which attempt to legitimize a lifestyle that is both perverse and dangerous."[NYT, 6/8/1977]
November 8, 1977: Harvey Milk is elected to the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Milk, who had founded the Castro Valley Association to give voice to the gay voters of San Francisco and was popularly known as the "Mayor of Castro Street", becomes the first gay elected official of a major American city. Milk had previously coordinated his political activities from a camera shop on 575 Castro Street, which is today an official San Francisco landmark. [NYT, 11/10/1977]
Photo of Harvey MilkMartin, Michael. "The Resurrection of Harvey Milk." Advocate; 11/18/2008, Issue 1019, p32-44, 9p The Times of Harvey Milk Media Resources Center DVD 2728Milk (2008) Media Resources Center DVD X1378
An Interview with Harvey Milk:
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1978: Filmmaker Rob Epstein and producer Peter Adair's documentary "Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives" is released. The film is widely considered the first feature-length documentary on gay and lesbian identity.
Word is Out.: Media Resources Center Video/C 2848
8th Gay Freedom Day, June 25th, 1978 :
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8th Gay Freedom Day Program
November 7, 1978: Voters in California overwhelmingly reject the Briggs Initiative on Election Day by a vote of 58 to 42 percent. The initiative, sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator from Orange County, would have not only barred known homosexuals from employment as school teachers, administrators or counselors, but also would have terminated the careers of those currently employed. Though gay activists declared victory in California, similar measures pass in other states, such as Minnesota, Kansas and Oregon. [Hollibaugh, p. 44; LAT, 11/8/1978]
November 27, 1978: Dan White, recently let go from the position on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, enters the office of Mayor George Moscone on the morning that Moscone is set to announce the appointment of Don Horanzy as White's replacement. After pleading with Moscone for several minutes to be reinstated, White pulls a revolver from out of his pocket and fires four shots into Moscone as the mayor lights a cigarette and proceeds to pour two drinks. White then dashes to the other end of City Hall, intercepting Milk along the way. White asks Milk for a word, and the two men step into Milk's old supervisor's office, where White aims his revolver at Milk. White fires five bullets into Milk's arm, wrist, chest and head, killing the newly-elected City Supervisor. Within the hour, White turns himself into the police. That evening, 40,000 people attend a candlelight vigil in Milk and Moscone's honor that begins in the Castro and ends at the steps of City Hall. [Shilts, pp. 263-281; LAT, 11/27/1978]
Milk/Moscone Murder News Coverage. Media Resources Center Video/C 2222
Moscone/Milk Coverage (Nov. 27, 1978)
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April 23 1979 - May 21, 1979: Dan White Murder Trial After six days of deliberation a jury of seven women and five men hands down a guilty verdict in the Dan White murder trial: White is accused of two counts of voluntary manslaughter, rather than the first-degree murder charges sought by prosecutors. During the trial, White's defense attempted to portray White as mentally unbalanced, and incabable of premeditating and forming malice (the key requirements for a murder charge). White's attorneys argued that he had diminished capacity due to depression, and thus could not have premeditated the killings. As evidence for his depression, they mentioned that he had been eating a lot of junk food. The media seized on this factor as the cause of White's depression and eventually the argument became known, as the "Twinkie defense." White served five years of his seven-year sentence at Soledad State Prison and was paroled on January 6, 1984.
The People vs Dan White Media Resources Center Video/C 3798May 21, 1979: In the wake of the Dan White verdict, a large crowd marched to San Francisco City Hall and began rioting; some protesters began smashing windows, setting fire to police cars and starting fights with police officers. More than 140 people, including 60 policemen are injured. [NYT, 5/23/1979]
Photo of protestsSnider, Kelly. " The Infamous Twinkie Defense--Fact or Fiction?" Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, Summer2006, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p42-43, 2p UC users only
May 1979: Reactions to the Dan White Verdict :
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Diminished Capacity:
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June 24, 1979: Gay Freedom Day Parade
July 26, 1979: Gay protestors in NYC storm a location shooting of William Friedkin's film Cruising, starring Al Pacino. The film depicts Pacino as a rookie undercover cop who is sent to investigate a series of murders in gay S&M bars and cruising areas in downtown Manhattan and, in the process, becomes drawn to the violent, sexual practices that he finds there. Philip Shehadi, who helped organize the protest, claimed that "the film falsely and viciously misrepresents our sexuality to an American public largely ignorant of gay life. That it showed violence and murder to be the natural outcome of cruising for gay sex. That it would encourage physical assaults - even killings - of gay men. That it would cast a shadow of fear over sexual encounters." Friedkin nevertheless finishes the film, 60% over budget thanks to the delays in shooting caused by the protests. The film receives mostly negative reviews from critics on its release in autumn of 1980. [NYT, 7/26/1979]
Cruising. Media Resources Center DVD 8990Bibliography of articles and books about Cruising
The National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights 1979:
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Ghaziani, Amin. "Breakthrough: The 1979 National March." Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; Mar/Apr2005, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p31-32 UC users only
News report on Rock Hudson's illness
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Jon Beaupre and Cindy Freedman hosted the KPFK coverage of the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, the third such march of its kind in US history. Organizers estimated an attendance of around one million. The controversy over both the ban on gays in the military and the government's inadequate response to the AIDS crisis were the two main foci of the march. KPFK's live coverage of the event includes recordings of speeches by Nancy Pelosi, Phill WIlson, Martina Navratilova, Gerry Studds and Urvashi Vaid, as well as phone interviews with members of the GLBT community.
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Urvashi Vaid, one-time attorney with the ACLU National Prisoners Project, former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, co-founder of the Boston Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance and the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, is considered one of the leading voices in the progressive LGBT movement. In this hour-long lecture, delivered on May 21, 1998, Vaid discusses the legal victories of the GLBT rights movement, anti-gay marriage and adoption laws, privatization, homophobia and sexism.
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Footage of June 16, 2008 events
News report on national Proposition 8 protests
Historical Overviews
Chronology of gay events in the late 20th century. 1969: Stonewall riots and the creation of militant gay groups. 1976: Rev. Troy Perry remembers the first Christopher St. West parade of 1970. 1977: Anita Bryant reacts against Dade County's ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexuality. Briggs Initiative designated to dismiss any homosexual from a teaching position. The adoption of sexual preference resolution at the Houston Conference. Jan. 1978: Milk sworn in as SF supervisor. Word Is Out premieres at FilmEx. Anita Bryant spreads her mission, April 1978, St. Paul. Briggs begins his crusade at SF in 1978. Wichita, May 9. May 23: Eugene, OR puts gay rights vote to voters. June 7: Anti-Briggs campaign fundraiser in Santa Monica. Briggs' concession. Nov. 1978: Milk's assassination. Funeral for Milk and Moscone. Speeches and reactions to Milk's death. Produced by Greg Gordon.
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May 21, 1979 - White found guilty of manslaughter. White Night Riots. Milk's 49th birthday. Two gay journalists confront the makers of CBS Reports' "Gay Power, Gay Politics" for their slanted portrayal of gay subcultures. Protests over Friedkin's Cruising. George Crile and Grace Diekhaus. Harry Reasoner. Cruising in Buena Vista Park. Portrayal of Dianne Feinstein "groveling for votes". The fundamentalist "New Right" and gays. 1981 - Falwell announces "war" on gays and lesbians. IMRU coverage of supporters and protestors at Falwell's LA Convention Center appearance. August 28, 1982 - opening of the Gay Games (not allowed to use Olympics in their name). AIDS funding and research. Produced by Greg Gordon.
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Katz appears in San Francisco to discuss his recently published book, Gay American History. Readings from Katz's book by the host are interspersed with clips of Katz's speech in SF. Katz lectures on a diverse number of topics, including gays and the Communist witch hunt; the history and psychiatric/corrective treatments to homosexuality; Lucy Ann Lobdell and lesbian feminism; gay Native Americans; Harry Hay and the founding of the Mattachine Society; medical studies of homosexuality from late 18th century to World War II; and Almada Sperry's correspondence with Emma Goldman. The show concludes with a reading from "Coming Out", a play written by Katz.
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project is a partnership between the UC Berkeley Library, the Pacifica Foundation, and other private and institutional sources. The intent of the project is to gather, catalog, and make accessible primary source media resources related to social activism and activist movements in California in the 1960's and 1970's. Some recordings have been edited for purposes of sound quality and continuity.
Sound recordings and textual background that form the core of this site were compiled and edited by Joseph Gallucci as part of an internship sponsored by New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program.
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