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Third World Liberation Front for the Future : Revisiting Student Activism in the ‘60s at SFSU

Third World Liberation Front for the Future : Revisiting Student Activism in the ‘60s Bay Area explores the history of student movement building at SF State University. Celeste Chan facilitates a panel discussion exploring student activism in the ‘60s Bay Area researched during her ten-week residency as an Artist-in-Residence at the SFPL. Chan's interest in the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) strikes, the longest student strikes in U.S. history, which led to the creation of Ethnic Studies as a discipline spanning colleges and secondary schools across the globe, grew during her residency with the library and led to the creation of this panel. About the Panelists Laureen Chew was born in San Francisco to a Chinese American father and a Chinese immigrant mother. She was raised in San Francisco’s Chinatown and her k-12 education consisted of public and Catholic schooling. During her college years, Chew volunteered and worked short-term jobs to help immigrant students, pre-delinquent teenage girls and at-risk youth in SF’s Chinatown. At SF State, she was arrested during the TWLF student strike and spent twenty-one days in jail for her support in establishing the College of Ethnic Studies in 1968. Dr. James Garrett has been involved in struggles for the human rights and self-determination of African peoples and all humanity for more than 50 years. As a member of both SNCC and CORE, he was an early activist in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. A co-founder of the modern Black Student Union Movement and Black/Ethnic Studies Programs and the Modern Black Arts Movement, he has taught History and Pan African Philosophy at Howard and Temple Universities in the US, the University of Tanzania at Dar es Salaam, and Ife, in Nigeria. Dr. Garrett has published numerous essays, speeches and interviews and has presented more than 100 scholarly presentations at conferences and commissions. Dr. Ramona Tascoe is a medical director focusing on young adult substance use and treatment of addiction disorders. After her time at UCSF she earned a master of public administration degree from the University of San Francisco and a master of divinity degree from Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union. She has also put her unique mix of skills to work on behalf of communities around the world, leading medical missions to 10 different countries. Throughout her career, Dr. Tascoe has unapologetically fought for equity in higher education. This includes as an undergraduate student playing a key role in the 1968 historic student strike at San Francisco State University leading to the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies and the courage and integrity to stand up to gender discrimination despite the threat of retaliation and the loss of a career in the field during her surgery residency. As she says, she declared “not me” before there was a “me too.” Raymond Tompkins's journey in Environmental Chemistry was shaped in his freshman year at San Francisco State College under the mentorship of Dr. Brian Ramsey, the head of the Graduate Division of Chemistry. His first project, a chemical analysis of cigarette smoke involving scrutinizing 62 chemical compounds, began his significant contributions to the field. Dr. Ramsey hired Raymond Tompkins as his Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in his sophomore year. He participated in the development of a chemistry course for non-chem. majors titled "Chemistry in the Human Environment." He hasn’t stopped working to increase the understanding of environmental justice in the United States and worldwide. During his junior year, Raymond Tompkins took on the role of chairman of the Black Student Union at San Francisco State College and Vice President of the Associated Students of San Francisco State College. One of his most significant achievements during his term was establishing the first Childcare Center in the California State College system. In Mr. Tompkins's senior year, he was appointed to a blue-ribbon panel of the California Atty. Gen. Younger to make recommendations to the state assembly in the areas of standardization of police training, in addition to the establishment of an Affirmative Action Program for women and minorities to be included in the local police agencies.