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Our Educational Resources section is a gateway to a comprehensive hub tailored for Ethnic Studies educators and researchers, particularly those at the high school level. This section connects you with tools and materials that are essential for both developing engaging curricula and conducting in-depth research on the history of the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF).

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Center for Race & Gender (CRG)

“The Center for Race & Gender (CRG) is an interdisciplinary research center that creates knowledge on critical intersections between race, gender, and social justice.”

Screenshot of the digital collection titled "SF State College Strike Collection" on Diva. Shows icons of different primary source documents.

SF State College Strike Collection

Collection about the TWLF SF State strike. Contains a multitude of sources including photographs, videos, oral histories, documents, and posters. 

Photograph of Sine Hwang-Jensen in the Ethnic Studies Library.

TWLF, Ethnic Studies, and African American Studies Library Guide

“This library resource guide compiles library and archival materials on the Third World Liberation Front student strike and the history of Ethnic Studies and African American Studies focusing on the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University.”

Archival materials seen on the Berkeley Revolution website.

The Berkeley Revolution: Third World Liberation Front

“This website is a collective project, one which emerged originally from an honors undergraduate seminar in American Studies at UC-Berkeley — “The Bay Area in the Seventies,” taught by Scott Saul in the spring of 2017. The eleven students in that seminar shaped their own research projects, burrowing into archives official and unofficial so as to recover the stories missing from or hidden within standard accounts of Berkeley’s history. The seminar was then repeated in the spring of 2018 with nine more students. In the spring of 2020 the course was expanded, under the aegis of Cal’s Global Urban Humanities initiative, into a 16-person seminar co-taught by Saul and the School of Architecture’s Greg Castillo, with support from Natalie Koski-Karell. In this version, the course took on projects focused on Oakland’s history as well as Berkeley’s. Because the COVID-19 pandemic meant that brick-and-mortar archives were shuttered, this team of students had to look beyond the primary-source collections housed in traditional archives. Their research projects, as a result, tended to rely more on digital archives and on oral history (or what, alternatively, might be called the kindness of strangers). This expansive, curated archive—with 700 documents organized across sixteen main projects, delving into the East Bay’s political and cultural revolutions and their aftershocks—is the result.” 

AAPA members at SF anti-Vietnam War march, SF 1968

Asian American Political Alliance Oral History Project

The mission of the Asian American Political Alliance Oral History Project is to document the history of the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) at UC Berkeley. AAPA was formed in 1968 and its two main chapters were at UC Berkeley, formed by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, and at San Francisco State College by Penny Nakatsu and others. AAPA was an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, Third World political organization that fought for self-determination and liberation for Asian Americans and emphasized solidarity with Third World peoples in the United States and around the world. Ichioka and Gee were also the co-creators of the term “Asian American” which replaced the term “Oriental” and brought individuals of different Asian backgrounds under a pan-Asian identity for the first time. At both UC Berkeley and San Francisco State, AAPA was a major force in the Third World Liberation Front coalition which joined African American, Asian American, Chicanx, and Native American students in the struggle for Ethnic Studies. Individuals who were involved in AAPA were involved in other struggles for liberation and justice including the KDP, anti-Vietnam War organizing, the Black Panthers, United Farmworkers, and other formations. Learn more