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People's Park in Berkeley, California is a parcel of land owned by the University of California, Berkeley. Located east of Telegraph Avenue and bound by Haste and Bowditch Streets and Dwight Way, People's Park was a symbol during the radical political activism of the late 1960s .
The 1969 confrontation in People's Park grew out of the counterculture of the 1960s. [1] Berkeley had been the site of the first large-scale antiwar demonstration in the country on September 30, 1964. [2] The late 1960s saw student protests across the United States, such as the 1968 Columbia University and Democratic National Convention ...
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Half a century after its tumultuous birth, People's Park in Berkeley, a treasured home for misfits and seekers, may have seen its last day A People's Park requiem: From free speech and flower ...
Photos: Police converge on People's Park in Berkeley to clear the way for crews to prepare the storied green space for construction of student housing.
Upper Sproul Plaza was also the site of early teach-ins and protests against the Vietnam War, the 1969 tear-gassing of People's Park protesters by the National Guard, 1985–86 protests against University investment in apartheid-era South Africa, and many other political events. In 2011, Sproul Plaza was the site of Occupy Berkeley protests.
The multimillion-dollar cost for UC Berkeley of walling off People's Park will grow with bills from outside agencies and continued security to keep people out.
Pages in category "History of Berkeley, California" ... 1969 People's Park protest; A. ... Berkeley Historical Plaque Project;