Map: “Welcome to Berkeley”

This map of Berkeley produced by Berkeley Graphic Arts shows the area surrounding and including the University of California, Berkeley campus, with icons indicating the location of parks, landmarks, legal aid, medical aid, information, and “pigs.” The contentious Bancroft strip which sparked the Free Speech Movement’s activities is located at the intersection of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Ave., near Sproul Hall (#18) the Student Union (#17). The map demonstrates the centrality of spatial politics to the FSM debates, which hinged in many ways on the division between campus and town. The ban on tables in the Bancroft strip indicated the administration’s position that political speech should only happen off-campus.