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Pages in category "1960s in Oakland, California" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Between 1950 and 1960, about 100,000 white property owners moved out of Oakland—part of a nationwide phenomenon called white flight. [ 48 ] By the end of World War II , black Americans constituted about 12% of Oakland's population, and the years following the war saw this percentage rise.
The 1960s Berkeley protests were a series of events at the University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley, ... 1965 through the streets of Oakland, California. With ...
Crime in Oakland, California began to rise during the late 1960s after the King assassination riots, and by the end of the 1970s Oakland's per capita murder rate had risen to twice that of San Francisco or New York City. [2] In 1983, the National Journal referred to Oakland as the "1983 crime capital" of the San Francisco Bay Area. [3]
In 1960, the American Football League was created and Rishell worked with F. Wayne Valley and Ed Mc Gah for the acquisition of the Oakland Raiders), In 1963, declaring that he no longer wished to live in Oakland, he and his wife relocated to a trailer park in Palm Desert before moving to a retirement community in Santa Barbara, where he died on ...
1873 – University of California relocates to Berkeley. 1875 – Oakland Daily Evening Tribune newspaper in publication. [5] 1878 – Oakland Free Library opens. [8] 1880 – Population: 34,456. [1] 1884 – Horton School established. [3] 1899 – Oakland Conservatory of Music established. [3] 1900 – Population: 66,960.
West Oakland is a neighborhood situated in the northwestern corner of Oakland, California ... Southern Pacific Railroad West Oakland yard. In the 1950s and 1960s, ...
In 1960, Kaiser Corporation opened its new headquarters; it was the largest skyscraper in Oakland, ... Oakland, California – Racial and ethnic composition