Other Primary Sources for the Sixties
You do NOT need to use any of these, but just for your information, there are lots of other primary sources on this topic at the UC Berkeley Libraries. These are just a few examples
Social Protest Collection - The Bancroft Library
(this is the finding aid, or guide to the collection; you have to use the collection at the library)
Eldridge Cleaver Papers - The Bancroft Library
(this is the finding aid, or guide to the collection; you have to use the collection at the library)
Haight Ashbury in the Sixties - CD-Rom
Primary Source databases
These are just a few of the databases that lead you to primary sources. For a more complete list of primary source databases in American History, go here.
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Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Indexes articles from Chicago Defender (1905-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), New York Times (1851-2004), San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Wall Street Journal (1889-1990), and Washington Post (1877-1991).
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Covers more than 500 leading American magazines and journals from 1890 to 1982.
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Alternative Press Index
Includes more than 450 alternative, radical, and left magazines, newsletters, and journals in North America which report and analyze issues of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Approximately 90% of publications included are not indexed elsewhere. Indexes editorials, regular columns, essays, fiction; speeches, interviews, statistics, reprints; bibliographies, biographies, obituaries, memoirs; and reviews. Interfaces available for French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. Alternative Press Index Archive provides coverage of materials from 1969 to 1990.
Free Speech Movement
For fun - just one aspect of UC Berkeley's involvement in the political activity of the Sixties
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive (Bancroft Library)
Free Speech Movement - Media at the Media Resources Center
Free Speech Movement - -photos online