TWLF encampment outside California Hall

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Black and white photograph of pathway outside California Hall. On the sidewalk are tents and a seated person; there are people lying in sleeping bags on the right.

In 1999, thirty years after the original Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) strike, UC Berkeley students responded to declining support for ethnic studies. Students held a hunger strike, sleep-ins, and rallies, and called for increased funding, full-time faculty hires, and institutional support for Chicano, Native American, and Asian American studies. The protests resulted in the establishment of the Center for Race & Gender and the Multicultural Community Center. 

Date: 1999
Attribution: Photograph, 1999, Photographs of the Ethnic Studies and Third World Liberation Front Protests of 1999, UARC PIC 27F, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.