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Unforgettable Change: 1960s: People’s Park Fights UC Land Use Policy; One Dead, Thousands Tear Gassed

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Highway patrolmen and National Guard soldiers blocking demonstrators in Berkeley, California. May 20, 1969. Robert Stinnett, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.

This is a photograph of Highway patrolmen and National Guard soldiers blocking demonstrators in Berkeley, California, west of the University of California, Berkeley campus in May 1969. Governor Reagan banned public assembly in the wake of the People’s Park demonstrations and called on the National Guard to execute his orders.

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