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1969 Third World Liberation Front Strike
1media/SF-State_thumb.jpeg2022-09-09T22:27:28+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Third World Liberation Front Strike picket line at San Francisco State University, 1969. Photo courtesy of Asian American Movement 1968. The Third World Liberation Front Strikes of 1968-69 were a defining moment for the burgeoning Asian American movement. At San Francisco State, AAPA (which was mostly limited to Japanese, in practice if not in theory), Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action, and the Pilipino-American Collegiate Endeavor came together to form the “Asian contingent” of the student-led strike. From November 1968 to March 1969—the longest student strike in U.S. history—Asian American, Black, Chicano, and Native students clashed with administrators, and occasionally police, to establish an ethnic studies department and increase the number of students and faculty of color at the school. A second strike took place at UC Berkeley from January to March 1969.plain2022-09-09T22:27:28+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49