K-12 students are becoming activists, drawing on lessons from historic fight

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In the fall of 1968, students at San Francisco State University went on strike, trading their classrooms for picket lines and demanding a university where, for the first time, students of color could see themselves in the curriculums.

The movement spread not only to nearby campuses, including University of California, Berkeley, but also across the country as students demanded curriculum changes.

Today, the battleground has moved to the K-12 level, where the echoes of this movement in the 1960s and '70s can be heard in the rallying cries of student activists as they push for equitable curriculums and oppose an onslaught of critical race theory bans limiting how teachers can discuss race in classrooms........

At Central York High School in Pennsylvania, students last year organized protests and spoke at board meetings after the school district banned books, documentaries, videos and resources on race and equity.

“They said these books made parents and students uncomfortable, but really it was making white parents and students feel uncomfortable,” said Christina Ellis, 17, vice president of the school’s Panther Anti-Racist Student Union. “No one asked how it made anyone else feel.”


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/k...-historic-fight-for-ethnic-studies/ar-AAU9Ag4

 

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Decades ago, police officers in full riot gear flooded SF State.

The bloodiest day of the strike came in January 1969 when hundreds of officers surrounded unarmed students to “crush this movement by violence,” said Garrett, a veteran activist who helped create the first Black student union, or BSU. Students were beaten with rifles. Many were arrested and some permanently maimed, he said.

“They were going to crush this movement, turn it to dust,” Garrett said.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I read the USlessNews Today article linked. Not one mention of any of the actual books they're touting. Without that, I can't read those and without reading them don't know whether these 'activists' are full of shit or not--as most activists are.
What I can take away from the article is that these minority students and others cited in the article are a bunch of dyed in the wool racists wanting separatist classrooms, classes, and curricula for themselves and their racial identity. Theirs and theirs alone. They claim they're anti-racist when it's clear they're nothing but narrow-minded bigots.