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Photo du Jour 501
Bobster1985 has a great collection of San Francisco archival footage. Here's a clip that shows a bit of San Francisco's progressive history during the Civil Rights Era. The full film can be seen at archive.org.
Here's a bit of history I never heard of before: police turning fire hoses onto demonstrators in the City Hall rotunda in San Francisco. According to the description of the Prelinger Archives, in May 1960, students and progressive activists opposed to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) demonstrated when HUAC held hearings in San Francisco's City Hall. San Francisco police turned firehoses on the demonstrators, washing them down the main staircase of City Hall, and the resultant publicity did much to engender the social consciousness of the 1960s. HUAC sympathizers produced a film, "Operation Abolition," condemning the demonstrators as Communist-inspired activists. The ACLU produced this film as a rejoinder to and critique of "Operation Abolition," incorporating many of its sequences and disputing its distortions.
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This footage, like the rest of the historical images of San Francisco that bobster1985 offers on flickr, comes from our collection, which is Prelinger Archives. Full versions can be downloaded at http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger, which is where bobster found them.
I'm showing "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 3", a compilation of historical material showing the city between 1906 and 1970, on May 16 at the Exploratorium. Come on by!
Cool, I'll write a preview post about it soon!
The Google, the Wikipedia and my short attention span are killing me right now, but I seem to remember a documentary on KRON or KQED ages ago that indicated that a young lawyer named Willie Brown stood up for the protesters, in his pre-politician days.
He ran in 1962 (!) and lost but ran again in 1964 and won and well there you go.
It was funny to see Gavin rip on anyone older than 42 at the convention and hear lefties rip on John Burton and the fact is these guys despite what you may think now, back in the day DID stick their necks out on the very very outspoken movements of their day. Find a Democrat or a Republican member of the Legislature that isn't working to pad their resume with BS to run for some other office now, and you get a gold foil star.
I don't plan on handing any out anytime soon!