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Title: Letter, Clergy Phalanx for Violence Prevention, April 23, 1968
Creator: Berkeley Free Church
Contributor: York, Richard L
Date Created and/or Issued: April 23, 1968
Publication Information: Graduate Theological Union
South Campus Community Ministry
Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union
Collection: Berkeley Free Church Collection
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Letter reporting tactics used at Stop the Draft Week demonstration in Oakland. This was one of the last uses of the phalanx tactic, where the clergy linked hands and tried to keep between the police and the protesters. It was too dangerous to the users.
Type: image
Format: Letter; 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm.).
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6s2036v3
GTU_026
GTU 89-5-016
Language: English
Subject: Berkeley Free Church (Berkeley, Calif.)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States
Peace--Religious Aspects
Place: Berkeley (Calif.)

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