“The Berkeley Revolution” is not just for historians who want to analyze the 1960-1970’s time period. It is relative to millenial’s issues in today’s world including women’s rights, peace, transgender topics, and college culture. The problems that were being combatted are the same ones that politics fight over in the current day. This project allows viewers to compare how much these topics have developed.
The layout of the project allows for people who are interested in the hippie era to read accounts of actual people living during the 1960s and 1970s. It gives a firsthand experience of what the movements did to impact the culture from the past to now. The types of projects within the “The Berkeley Revolution” cover a huge variety of popular issues. Recycling can be connected with environmentalists. Transgender and LGBT+ is a huge topic today concerning equality. Women’s rights relates to feminism and feminist viewpoints today. Racism is discussed as well. These important topics are directly mirrored in today’s society.
Not only does the project interest people who were living in the targeted time period, but it gives authors and writers the opportunity to read accounts of a photographer and an activist/impresario. It allows for writers to read other’s writing and how their words portrayed their accounts of the past. The historic significance to writers and historians are in the first-person perspectives.
