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Protest

  • May Day, 1934 – Crowd at Labor Rally
  • Longshoreman and other waterfront workers picket in front of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco to protest the Coast Guard security screening program
  • Peace Picket John Seltz leaps in front of troop train
  • A woman carrying a bouquet of daisies stands next to a National Guardsman
  • In 1987, more than 400 protestors marched at University of California, Berkeley, to call for the creation of a graduate program in African American Studies
  • A crowd gathers to commemorate International Woman's Day
  • Poster in opposition to the UC Regents vote to end affirmative action
  • World War II veterans protest the lack of housing with signs reading, "From foxholes to shacks!! We had more room in the foxholes."
  • A group of Chinese demonstrators at the waterfront in San Francisco carrying signs protesting the sale of scrap iron to Japan
  • Grocery store in Chinatown of Oakland, California
  • Song of the South protest
  • Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio leading student protestors at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Police officers clash with draft protestors in downtown Oakland
  • Members of the Black Panthers march outside of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland during Huey Newton's trial
  • Members of the San Francisco Ad Hoc Committee To End Racial Discrimination protest outside the Oakland Tribune building in downtown Oakland, California, demanding an increase in minority employees at the paper
  • Port Chicago explosion survivor, Perey Robinson, praying during the dedication
  • Oakland general strike, Kahn's Department Store
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  • Black Panthers Stand Courthouse Watch Following Rally

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