Student Activism
This collection contains audio and print materials focusing on student activism and movements in the 1960s and early 1970s. Material primarily focuses on student activism at colleges and universities but also some materials from high school students.
-radical student newspapers, journals, newsletters, statements, and event flyers from across the country;
-local Bay Area newspaper reports about UC Berkeley campus protests and activism at other area schools;
-primary material from the Third World Liberation Front's efforts and student strikes to establish an ethnic studies program at Berkeley in 1968-69;
-student protest materials, administrative reports, comprehensive information booklets, a Free University of Berkeley course catalog and local news reports from the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley (1964-1966);
Sub-collections include audio and print material from two struggles:-The efforts of students at San Francisco State College (now University) during the 1968-1969 school year to make the school more inclusive and receptive to minority students and their needs.
-The community movement to build People's Park following the successful struggle to create ethnic studies programs both at UC Berkeley and at San Francisco State College in the fall of 1968.
Subcollections
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People's Park
The community movement to build People’s Park followed immediately after the successful struggle to create ethnic studies programs both at UC Berkeley and at San Francisco State College in the fall of 1968. -
San Francisco State
During the 1968-1969 school year students at San Francisco State College (now University) waged a protracted struggle with the school's administration in an effort to make the school more inclusive and receptive to minority students and their needs.