UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library

In commemoration of 150 years since women were first admitted to UC Berkeley, this oral history project interviews women who were a part of the Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley. The TWLF was a coalition of students of color who demanded justice and liberation in education. In solidarity with the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College and with the support of community organizations, the TWLF went on one of the longest student strikes in history in 1968-1969. The strikes led to the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State and the …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

The Asian American Political Alliance Oral History Project was led by Professors Elaine Kim and Harvey Dong at UC Berkeley in 2018. The mission of the project was to document the history of the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) through oral history interviews with key members of the UC Berkeley chapter. 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 …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

The materials selected are drawn from a variety of archival collections, compiled by institutions and libraries with varying missions. Many of the collections have distinctive histories of their own. In some cases entire collections have been included; more often a selection of materials relating to the Chinese in California has been selected from a collection with broader scope. It is our hope that The Chinese in California presents a balanced perspective on a tumultuous and changing history of this community in California. Major issues explored in these records include the Chinese contribution to California and the American West in the …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

was published in San Francisco from Feb. 1900 to 1951. It has a long publishing history and almost all its issues survived.

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

Third World Strike at University of California, Berkeley collection, 1968-1972 In 1968, a coalition of African American, Asian American, Chicano, and Native American student groups united as the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) at San Francisco State University (then San Francisco State College). The TWLF led student strikes demanded the establishment of a Third World College. A few months following the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) student initiated strike at SFSU, a coalition of students at the University of California united under their own TWLF and organized a solidarity strike on the Berkeley campus. On January 22, 1969 the strike …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library

The Wei Min She (為民社) and Asian Community Center photographs collection consists of negatives and digital photographs which were primarily taken by Steve Louie. Wei Min She (WMS), meaning "Serve the People Organization," was one of several Asian American Marxist anti-imperialist organizations which developed in San Francisco in the 1970s. WMS engaged in various labor, anti-imperialist, anti-war, and anti-capitalist campaigns and were one of the organizations, along with groups such as I Wor Kuen (IWK) and Katipunan Ng Mga Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP), who played key roles in the struggle to halt the eviction of the International Hotel. WMS also published …

Institution: UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library