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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 People's Park protest, also known as Bloody Thursday, took place at People's Park on May 15, 1969. The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
The legal brouhaha marks the latest setback for the People's Park project, first unveiled in 2018 by UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ. The park, three blocks south of the main campus, became a ...
Indian Rock Park is a 1.18-acre (4,800 m 2) public park in the city of Berkeley, California, on the slope of the Berkeley Hills.Located in the northeast part of the city, it is about two blocks north of the Arlington/Marin Circle, and straddles Indian Rock Avenue.
The park just off Telegraph Avenue was born in 1969, after free speech radicals seized the property from the University of California, setting off weeks of tense confrontations between activists ...
UC Berkeley plans to build a $312 million housing complex for about 1,100 of its students at the nearly 3-acre (1.2-hectare) People’s Park, which it owns. Protests have at times escalated into ...
John Hinkel Park is an urban park located in the North Berkeley neighborhood of Berkeley, California, U.S.. It has been listed by the city as a Berkeley Landmark since April 2, 2001, [ 1 ] and it contains a historical plaque since 2003.
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.