Biography
Herbert L. Dunbar owned Brandy’s 78th Avenue Club, also called the Psychedelic Shack, in East Oakland with his wife Clementine. In an interview published in June 1971 he described a police raid at about 2 a.m. on May 22, 1971, his handcuffing and arrest, and battery-on-an-officer charges against 25 people. He said he spent the weekend in jail before being let go and appeared in court on May 28. He portrayed the raid as racial police harassment of a Black-owned neighborhood business. The interview gives no exact discharge day or eventual disposition.
Herbert L. Dunbar owned Brandy’s 78th Avenue Club, also called the Psychedelic Shack, in East Oakland with his wife Clementine. In an interview published in June 1971 he described a police raid at about 2 a.m. on May 22, 1971, his handcuffing and arrest, and battery-on-an-officer charges against 25 people. He said he spent the weekend in jail before being let go and appeared in court on May 28. He portrayed the raid as racial police harassment of a Black-owned neighborhood business. The interview gives no exact discharge day or eventual disposition.
