San Francisco State Student Strike

Dates Leading up to strike Third World Movement Important people/organizations involved Goals Demands Outcomes

November 1968 to March 1969

Third World Movement: - Decolonization - Pushing back against imperialism • Mao Zedong international revolution leader during this time o George Mason Murray was a graduate student in English, director of Tutorial Program, minister of Education of Black Panther Party (?)

Students Black Panthers President Ichiye Hayakawa Third World Liberation Front

• Mostly working class commuters • 1/3 population non-white, over ¾ white

• Japanese Canadian American • Presiden of SF State 1968-1973 • Against student strike and demands • Controversial figure • Tied to the model minority myth

• Created 1968 • Comprised of many student organizations such as: • Black Student Union • Latin American Student Organization

• Special admission for students of color • School of Ethnic Studies o Development of Third World curricular • Revolutionary nationalist ideology emphasizing unity amongst 3rd world people • Hiring/rehiring/retaining important faculty

o 1. Ethnic Studies program o 2. Open admission o 3. Community control o 4. Redefining of the education system

• You can get a Bachelors degree in Black Studies • Black studies department houses its courses, and teachers get full time pay

• 1. Third World people in charge creating knowledge about themselves and community • 2. Third world people have institutional control over area studies department • 3. Open admissions to students of color • 4. Administration can't discipline strikers

o Over 700 students arrested o TWLF funds depleted from bailing out students o Criminal charges and interracial discipline on strikers o March 21, 1969 TWLF signed settlement