Unforgettable Change: 1960s: Protest Marches Grow Into The Antiwar Movement
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. A man straddles a traffic light at the corner of Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, CA. July 4, 1968. Lonnie Wilson, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Alameda Newspaper Group.
This photograph shows a man sitting on top of the traffic lights at the intersection of Haste Street, and Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California on July 4, 1968. The crowd of people gathered on the street below him is part of a peaceful anti-war demonstration, which came on the heels of a demonstration that was anything but peaceful, and was known as the “Battle of Telegraph Avenue.”