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The Way We Were

Hippies Fight Back During People’s Park Uprising

Also called “Bloody Thursday,” the People’s Park Uprising was, at its core, a battle over citizens’ appropriation of unused land at the University of California, Berkley. But when Governor Reagan delegated crowd control duties to his chief of staff, Edwin Meese III, violence escalated.

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