Unforgettable Change: 1960s: People’s Park Fights UC Land Use Policy; One Dead, Thousands Tear Gassed
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Protestors holding sign, “Give us the Park”. May 30, 1969. Howard Erker, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
This is a photograph of people protesting the government’s use of force in the conflict over the People’s Park in Berkeley, California in May, 1969. Local merchants and residents created a park in a space owned by the University of California, Berkeley. The state government, in a show of force, sent in the National Guard to prevent the merchants and residents from creating a neighborhood park on land owned by the University of California.