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Honoring Merriman: Berkeley's Hero in the Spanish Civil War

Merriman memorial plaque installed in Corbera d’Ebre (Tarragona)
$48,187
102%
Raised toward our $47,000 Goal
85 Donors
Project has ended
Project ended on December 31, at 11:59 PM PST
Project Owners
Rank State Gifts
1 CA 59
2 NY 2
2 OR 2

G. Mathias

Kondolf

$200

Jan 07, 2025

Abraham Lincoln

Brigade Archives

$5,000

Jan 06, 2025

Christopher

Stone

Dec 11, 2024

Oscar

Garcia Gallego

$20

Dec 07, 2024

Nicolás

Zabala goñi

Dec 06, 2024

JOSÉ

GONZÁLEZ MUÑOZ

$100

Dec 06, 2024

Abraham Jesús

Fernández López

$35

Dec 06, 2024

Jonatan

Jáñez Freire

Dec 05, 2024

Alexandra

Saum-Pascual

Dec 04, 2024

Ana Belen

Redondo Campillos

Dec 04, 2024

Dan

Wohlfeiler

Dec 03, 2024

Fran

Krieger-Lowitz

Dec 03, 2024

Linda & Steve

Lustig

$5,000

Dec 02, 2024

Leslie

Airola-Murveit

$5,000

Dec 02, 2024

Anonymous

$500

Nov 25, 2024

Anonymous

$500

Nov 25, 2024

Peter

Hartzman

$100

Nov 22, 2024

Anonymous

$500

Oct 14, 2024

Anonymous

$2,000

Oct 14, 2024

Priscilla

Hinman

$100

Sep 15, 2024

Laurie

Olsen

$50

Aug 26, 2024

Jannie

Dresser

$10

Aug 25, 2024

Josephine Nelson

Yurek

$100

Aug 22, 2024

Daniel

Olson

$100

Aug 22, 2024

Judith

Berlowitz

$100

Aug 21, 2024
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$2,000

Visit to ALBA Monument in SF

A guided visit of the San Francisco Monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade installed at the Embarcadero Plaza in 2008. The translucent stone squares in the steel structure show scenes from the war and the faces of some U.S. volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), as well as words about the period from writers like Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, and Alvah Bessie. It was designed by Ann Chamberlain and Walter Hood, and donated by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives together with the Veterans and Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. 6 person max.

0 of 5 Claimed
Estimated Delivery: August 2024

$2,500

Merriman's UCB Walking Tour

Join the Merriman Plaque project coordinators on a tour of one of Robert Merriman's favorite places to study, potential locations where the plaque will be installed, and a stroll to the apartment building where he and Marion lived in the 1930s. 6 person max.

0 of 10 Claimed
Estimated Delivery: August 2024

$3,500

Zoom Webinar on SCW Music

Peter Glazer, emeritus professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and a professional director and playwright whose adaptations and collaborations include Woody Guthrie’s American Song and Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, has offered a 90-minute Zoom webinar on the music of the Spanish Civil War.

0 of 3 Claimed
Estimated Delivery: August 2024

$5,000

Curated visit Bancroft Library

Curated tour of the Bancroft Library's Spanish Civil War and Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post Records collection at UC Berkeley. Includes correspondence, administrative files, photographs, posters, postcards, artifacts, clippings, articles, scrapbooks, artifacts, biographical material, broadsides and organizational information. 4 person max.

2 of 5 Claimed
Estimated Delivery: August 2024
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