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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 ...
After the march in support of People's Park on May 30, 1969, the university decided to keep the 8-foot-tall perimeter chain-link wire fence and maintain a 24-hour guard over the site. On June 20, the University of California Regents voted to turn the People's Park site into a soccer field and parking lot, pending construction of apartments ...
During that time, as many as 7000 people (mostly students) congregated in the plaza watching the spectacle and listening to the speeches. [5] On the evening of October 2, 1964, approximately twenty-four hours later, representatives of political groups on campus signed an agreement with the administration regarding student free speech, which was ...
The park, three blocks south of the main campus, became a national symbol of people power in 1969, when hundreds of people hauled sod, trees and flowers to a scruffy lot that the university ...
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.
The park was founded in 1969 as part of the era’s free speech and Civil Rights Movement and for ... Make UC a Good Neighbor and The People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group filed a ...
In 1969, Telegraph was the site of massive confrontation between police and demonstrators during the conflict over People's Park. Alameda County Sheriff's deputies killed one man (James Rector) and permanently blinded another (Alan Blanchard) when they fired buckshot loaded shotguns at people sitting on the roof above Telegraph Ave.
During this era, the most publicized event was the 1969 protest over People's Park, a conflict between the university and a number of Berkeley students and city residents over a plot of land on which the university had intended to construct athletic fields. A grassroots effort by students and residents turned it into a community park, but after ...