Virgie Hoban, UC Berkeley Library, Author at Berkeleyside

Schools

‘Discredit, disrupt and destroy’: UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

by Virgie Hoban, UC Berkeley Library Feb. 4, 2021, 12:42 p.m.Aug. 4, 2022, 11:15 a.m.

FBI records show how the federal agency tried to undermine the Black Panthers, Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Arts

‘If I can tune up my car, I can take pictures.’ Photographer Cathy Cade on the quiet joys of womanhood

by Virgie Hoban, UC Berkeley Library June 27, 2019, 4:05 p.m.Oct. 4, 2022, 1:48 a.m.

Cathy Cade first witnessed the power of photography during the civil rights movement, as black-and-white portraits of oppression and resistance blazed across the nation.