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The Long, Bloody Strike For Ethnic Studies
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:38:11
Publish Date: 2020-08-05 04:00:06
Description: The largest public university system in the country, the Cal State system, just announced a new graduation requirement: students must take an ethnic studies or social justice course. But ethnic studies might not even exist if it weren't for some students at a small commuter college in San Francisco. Fifty years ago, they went on strike — and while their bloody, bitter standoff has been largely forgotten, it forever changed higher education in the United States.
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