Archive for the ‘Third World Liberation Front’ Category
Keep Black Studies in Ethnic Studies!
Archive Entry Date: 11/11/1974
The struggle to halt the divide & conquer strategy of the University.
Bowker Bumsout Blacks
Archive Entry Date: 1/29/1972
When the Cal administration installed its own chair of Afro-American Studies, dissenters went to the Rainbow Sign to strategize
Asian Studies Program Summary
Archive Entry Date: 1971
"It is indeed a minor miracle the Division has survived its first year."
The Blood Runs Cold
Archive Entry Date: 10/10/1969
Seven months after the TWLF strike, black leaders reflected on the gains of the struggle and its future
Asian American Political Alliance Central Committee
Archive Entry Date: 9/9/1969
A questionnaire suggests how the twLF struggle was about more than a course of study
Women’s Liberation Supports TWLF
Archive Entry Date: 3/69
Berkeley's Women's Liberation Front announced their support for twLF
Strike 1969 Pamphlet
Archive Entry Date: c. 3/15/69
The TWLF answered the question: why should students stick their neck out for the cause?
Moratorium?
Archive Entry Date: 3/14/1969
Uncertainty hovered over the TWLF as its leadership attempted to negotiate with Chancellor Heyns
SOLIDARITY!
Archive Entry Date: 3/1969
A pamphlet that offered analysis of the TWLF position and of the police and campus counterreaction
Gas Over Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 3/7/1969
The Barb on "Reagan's robots" and some confusion within the TWLF after the Berkeley Faculty vote
Faculty at UC Berkeley Votes for Ethnic Studies Department
Archive Entry Date: 3/6/1969
Cal faculty voted for an Ethnic Studies department—not a Third World College
Native American Studies Proposal
Archive Entry Date: 1969
"To a considerable degree all who reside in the United States have been 'Indianized' while at the same time, of course, Indians have become 'Europeanized.'"
Chancellor Heyns to Academic Senate
Archive Entry Date: 3/4/1969
Heyns lambasted the strike and argued for an Ethnic Studies unit bound by university protocols
Chicano Studies Proposal
Archive Entry Date: 1969
"The present needs of the Chicano must be met in such a way to...sustain self confidence and provide a feeling of acceptance on the student's terms."
Asian Studies Proposal
Archive Entry Date: 1969
"The roots of the Asian-American lie in Asia. A knowledge of history is essential; most pertinent is history involving Western man."
Third World College Proposal
Archive Entry Date: 3/1969
The goal of a detailed plan for a Third World College: radical education out of the radical imagination
A Cal Student’s Mother Supports twLF
Archive Entry Date: 03/1969
A Cal mother wrote to the Regents supporting the fight for a Third World College
Berkeley Strikers Battle Police
Archive Entry Date: 2/28/1969
Battles between strikers and police led to greater support for the TWLF among students and TAs
Berkeley, Son of SF State
Archive Entry Date: 2/28/1969
An analysis—from a later Pulitzer Prize winner—of how the two TWLFs converged and diverged
twLF Communiqué #8
Archive Entry Date: 2/24/1969
The twLF held the "first session of the Third World College," grounding their struggle in educational self-determination, not police brutality or the street struggle
Cal TA’s in the Soup
Archive Entry Date: 2/21/1969
The Cal TA union voted to strike after 17 TAs were busted on a TWLF picket line
Campus in Clouds of Tear Gas
Archive Entry Date: 2/1969
Police turned the Cal campus into a militarized war zone
The TWLF marching on Sproul Plaza
Archive Entry Date: 2/1969
Manuel Delgado, of the Mexican American Students Confederation, heading up a TWLF rally
Chancellor Heyns on the State of Emergency
Archive Entry Date: 02/5/1969
A crucial moment: Chancellor Heyns asked Governor Reagan to declare a 'state of emergency' and bring in police from elsewhere
Support from SF State Graduate Teachers Union
Archive Entry Date: 1/20/69
SF State's graduate teachers union wrote a letter in support of twLF
Student Masses Win
Archive Entry Date: 1/31/1969
In its second week the TWLF strike took on a new momentum and met stronger resistance
“A True WASP” Responds to Strikers
Archive Entry Date: 1/30/1969
A failure to understand the true meaning of self-determination.