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Language in Thought and Action. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.
Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968. The Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) rose in 1968 as a coalition of ethnic student groups on college campuses in California in response to the Eurocentric education and lack of diversity at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) and University of California, Berkeley. [1]
San Francisco State: On Strike. San Francisco State: On Strike a.k.a. San Francisco State Sit In came out in 1969 and was Newsreel's 26th film. It was a 25-minute documentary about the San Francisco State strike of 1968-69, which lasted over five months and became the longest strike by students at an academic institution in the U.S. The central ...
They also organized in solidarity with the San Francisco State College TWLF strike. On January 22, 1969, the Afro-American Studies Union, the Mexican-American Student Confederation (MASC), the Native American Student Alliance (NASA), and the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) coalesced to form the Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley.
The San Francisco General Strike of 1934, along with the Toledo Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 led by the American Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 led by the Communist League of America, were catalysts for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s, much of which was organized through the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
The Asian American Political Alliance ( AAPA) was a political organization started at University of California, Berkeley in 1968 that aimed to unite all Asian Americans under one identity to push for political and social action. The two main chapters were at UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State College, both of which became heavily involved in ...
The student strike of 1970 was a massive protest across the United States that included walk-outs from college and high school classrooms, initially in response to the United States expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Nearly 900 campuses nationwide participated. [1] The strike began May 1, but increased significantly after the shooting ...
N2378 [6] San Francisco State University ( San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the California State University system. It offers 121 bachelor's degree programs, 106 master's degree programs, and 3 doctoral ...