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Unforgettable Change: 1960s: Free Speech Movement & The New American Left

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‘Group Against the sit-downs’. October 1, 1964. Russ Reed, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. The Oakland Tribune Collection. Gift of Alameda Newspaper Group.

This is a photograph of a group of students who are protesting against the students holding a sit-in in Sproul Hall as part of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in October of 1964. This group of students are shown holding signs reading, “We support the U,” “We Support the Administration,” ”We’re for Kerr,” and “Advocation not Provocation.”

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