End To Silence, An: The San Francisco State Student Movement in the 60's

Barely ten years old, the American student movement has reached a critical turning point; no longer the half-articulated expression of vague generational discontents, endlessly pontificated upon by academic pundits, it has located it's target and attacked it head on. Launched on November 6,1968 by the Third World Liberation Front on the campus, the San Francisco State Strike began as a series of demands which projected the educational needs of the various non-white communities of the Bay area...As the strike progressed, it inevitably developed into an attack on the whole direction which mass higher education in California had taken in the past ten years because it became increasingly clear that the TWLF was not simply taking San Francisco State to task for it's various sins, general or specific; it was proposing an alternative philosophy of education. - from the Introduction