Cal State Colleges: San Francisco State College (sound)

Description: Documents scenes within the Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968 at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). Includes voiceover interviews with students and police officers involved.

More information on the Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968: magazine.sfsu.edu/archive/archive/fall_08/strike.html (accessed 7/7/2025)

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Subjects: 1960s, Activism, Universities and colleges, Education, Racism--Resistance to

Tags: California state colleges; strikes; text collage; San Francisco State College sign; student protestors; sign Institutional Racism Must Go!; protest signs; AFT; AFL-CIO; local 1928; 15 demands; labor unions; police; San Francisco Police Department; police brutality; surveillance helicopters; picket lines; demonstrations; students; 1960s fashions; corduroy; turtlenecks; marching; Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968; ethnic studies; Strike to End Institutional Racism sign; group of officers holding batons; audio interviews; black and white still photographs edited in;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Jawal

Credits: Title on film print: "A Jawal Production"

Distributor:

Contributor: Niles Essanay Film Museum

Source Collection:

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1968

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California

Genre/Form: documentary, activist

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: magnetic striped film

Color: color

Color Process: Ektachrome

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: magnetic stripe

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 260