Third World Liberation Front: The Civil Rights Movement

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The Third World Liberation Front came together out of the upheaval of society throughout the world, whether that be the anti-communist war in Vietnam, Dr. King’s assassination, Huey Newton going to jail, the uprisings in East Los Angeles or the Black Power salute given by John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the Olympics in Mexico (among many other issues), it became clear that the entirety of the world was being questioned and that the oppressed needed to come together (8). San Francisco State College’s third world students reflected the world around it in that they challenged the conventional systems. Recognizing the commonality between all third world peoples enabled them to also embrace each other’s and their own differences and create an environment …show more content…
Although it seemed that the Civil Rights Movement had succeeded with the federal civil rights legislation, it still did not fully confront the racial realities, societal prejudices and oppression that was still deeply ingrained throughout America, even in “liberal” California. With strong influence from the Black Power Movement, national liberation movement, Vietnam and the Black Student Union, more nonwhite student organizations began to emerge in 1967, which would eventually converge together. Compromising of the leading Black Student Union (BSU), Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA), Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action (ICSA), Philippine American College Endeavor (PACE), Latin American Student Organization (LASO), and the Mexican American Student Confederation (MASC), the Third World Liberation Front was created in the spring of 1968 to confront the curriculum, change the admissions system and create a stronger bond and support system for their surrounding Third World communities in order to bring , in their own words, “a New World Consciousness of oppressed peoples. (5)” All the groups worked closely with their communities, demonstrating that they were about helping the people with cultural and political activism, …show more content…
The strike had a lasting effect both on the San Francisco State, which still has its ethnic studies program and the students who were there, but also throughout the nation both ideologically and pragmatically. As a result, the College of Ethnic Studies was instituted in 1969 and hundreds of other higher education institutions across the country followed SF State’s lead. According to a 1981 report issued by the Education Resource Information Center, 439 colleges in the country offered a total of 8,805 ethnic studies courses by 1978 (7). The Third World Liberation Front had challenged the institution in itself instead of just the oppressive symbols of the institution. Ideologically, people of color were now able to define who they were to themselves and others within the educational system, creating a control and a self-made articulation of their identification by stripping that power away from the white supremacy. The strike empowered the Equal Opportunity Program that gave more accessibility to people of color (7). It also created a tradition of voicing discontent on campus and turning values into
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