October 30, 1968: 54 years ago, Oct 30 1968, a bomb exploded at the office of Oakland lawyer [...]
54 years ago, Oct 30 1968, a bomb exploded at the office of Oakland lawyer and civil rights activist Donald Warden. Warden, the founder of the Afro-American Association and an early influence on the Black Panther Party, blamed “white radicals,” while the BPP blamed the police
November 2, 1968: 54 years ago, Nov 1 1968, San Francisco State University fired English [...]
54 years ago, Nov 1 1968, San Francisco State University fired English Instructor (& Black Panther Party Minister of Education) George Murray. Outrage over Murray’s firing sparked the Third World Liberation Front student strike which led to the creation of Black & Ethnic Studies
November 7, 1968: 53 years ago, November 6 1968, the Black Student Union and the Third World [...]
53 years ago, November 6 1968, the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University began the longest student strike in US history, spawning the departments of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies at SFSU, and Ethnic Studies and UC Berkeley
November 29, 1968: 54 years ago, Nov 28 1968, members of San Francisco State's [...]
54 years ago, Nov 28 1968, members of San Francisco State’s Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action founded the Free University for Chinatown Kids, Unincorporated (FUCK U), which taught free classes on Asian-American history and struggle to working-class youth in Chinatown FUCK U was founded in the early days of the …
December 3, 1968: 55 years ago, Dec 3 1968, Christian neo-Nazi group the Society of Man set [...]
55 years ago, Dec 3 1968, Christian neo-Nazi group the Society of Man set off a bomb at the Midpeninsula Free University, an experimental school in Menlo Park with strong links to the Maoist Revolutionary Union. That year, SoM executed dozens of attacks against progressive groups