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A guide to library and online resources on the Third World Liberation Front and the history of Ethnic Studies and African American Studies at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University
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On Strike: Ethnic Studies - 1969-1999
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ON STRIKE! makes an encapsulated, incisive study of the context and events that led up to the Ethnic Studies demonstrations, hunger strikes, and student arrests that surprisingly roiled the UC Berkeley campus in May 1999. Opening with a quick historical study of the struggle that established Ethnic Studies in the late sixties, this record of modern-day activism soon moves into the urgent present-time, detailing the nineties' TWLF (Third World Liberation Front) movement and their pitched battle against the university administration.
The Berkeley Revolution: The Third World Liberation Front
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This is the story of campus no one tells on tours when they walk by Sproul Hall. It’s the story of how UC-Berkeley was enveloped in clouds of tear gas during the longest strike in campus history—how the campus was shaken, like the rest of the world in the 1960s, by the demands for justice by young Third World people...
STRIKE!... Concerning the 1968-69 Strike at San Francisco State College
Historical Essay compiled by Helene Whitson.
Articles about TWLF 50th Anniversary
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https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/TWLF-50
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https://www.helloprosper.co/blog/the-third-world-liberation-front-and-ethnic-studies
Center for Race & Gender: 2018-2019: 50th Anniversary of the Third World Liberation Front
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The UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library organized a Third World Liberation Front Resource Guide that compiles materials on the twLF and the history of Ethnic Studies and African American Studies focusing on, but not limited to the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Resource include the following...
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