Gus Newport
“ The peace movement was much the same struggle as the civil rights movement. You cannot separate the two. We were looking at the role …
Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning: Berkeley, CA
Berkeley’s city government had a Republican majority from its early years until 1961, when liberal candidates backed by the Berkeley Democratic Club gained control of …
Interview With Mayor Gus Newport: BLACK GAINS TIED DIRECTLY TO PURSUIT OF PEACE
The Black Scholar Vol. 17, No. 1, BLACKS AND PEACE (January/February 1986), pp. 8-11 (4 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41068136?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The l979-l980 City Council
The l979-l980 City Council: The BCA/Carole Davis Majority Passing the Torch Several eras came to an end at the April 24, l979 Berkeley City Council …
Berkeley in the 1970s
A History of Progressive Electoral Politics by David Mundstock. Remember he wrote this history in 1984-85 and never updated it. So please be tolerant of …
Rochester Black Freedom Struggle — Walter Cooper
This interview offers a look at Dr. Cooper’s upbringing and education in Clairton, PA, his education at Washington and Jefferson College, and his graduate work …
“We are black folks first”: the black freedom struggle in Rochester, NY and the making of Malcolm X
This paper illustrates the intersection of the Civil Rights Movement in Rochester, NY with Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. Drawing on newspapers, organizational …
Rufus Fairwell police brutality case, 1962
The collection is very extensive, containing everything from report cards at the age of twelve to surveys of Rochester city schools in the 1960’s to …
The third world in the first world
Peace is not just the absence of war. It is also the eradication of poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, class distinctions, fundamentalism, and other factors that …