LibGuides: Student Activism: History: College of San Mateo

Books & Articles

From College Readiness to Ready for Revolution: Third World Student Activism at a Northern California Community College, 1965–1969
The history of the creation of academic ethnic studies departments in the 1960s often focuses on relationships between popular social movements and activists on campuses of research universities. This history often neglects the emergence of ethnic studies programs at community colleges serving working-class students. Community colleges were the public institutions of higher education that enrolled (and still enroll) the greatest number of working-class students (of color). There are more than one hundred community colleges across California, which serve as the primary entry point to higher education for Latinas/os. This article presents a history of battles over ethnic studies at the College of San Mateo in California in order to explore the dialectic of reform and revolution as it unfolded there....

Strictly Ghetto Property by Hines, Marjorie Discusses strike and protests at CSM, 1966-1968 CSM College Readiness Program, pp 93-119
Call Number: KF224L64H4
Publication Date: Ramparts Press, 1972

The War in the Schools: San Francisco Bay Area High Schools and the Anti–Vietnam War Movement, 1965–1973 Author(s): Aaron G. Fountain Jr. Source: California History , Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 22-41

The War in the Schools: San Francisco Bay Area High Schools and the Anti–Vietnam War Movement, 1965–1973 Author(s): Aaron G. Fountain Jr. Source: California History , Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 22-41 Published by ABSTRACT This article examines the experiences of high school students, teachers, and administrators in the San Francisco Bay area during the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era. From 1965 to 1973, a vocal minority of high school students mounted a vigorous campaign of antiwar activism that demanded an immediate response from school officials. They constructed a unique interpretation of antiwar activity and the intensity of their activism generally reflected the movement at large. Drawing mostly from local dailies, high school newspapers, school district documents, and interviews, this article reveals that high schools in the San Francisco Bay area were politically contested battlegrounds during the antiwar movement.

Photographs

www.SMCCD.edu/photoarchives

For images of CSM protests during1970 and its effect at the college, search for peace march to find dozens of photographs about a march by students and faculty in response to the Kent State event.

Volunteer photo archivist (retired faculty member) Bill (William) Rundberg is glad to assist.

Bill Rundberg Rundberg@my.smccd.edu