The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
A group of thousands crowd Sproul Plaza in a student demonstration during the Free Speech Movement. Photograph appears to have been cut down middle and glued back together. Typed and taped to back: "Thousands jam Student Union plaza during noon rally to hear Free Speech movement leaders claim "we really expected we'd get something today and we didn't" with date December 8 1964; "Thousands follow Free Speech Movemnt at Berkeley" with date August 8 1965. Stamped to back: "Ron Riesterer"; "Dec 7 1964
Concepts:
Free Speech Movement; student protest
Organizations:
Sproul Plaza; University of California, Berkeley
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