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Ethnic Studies Takes A Hit
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Sun Reporter, The
03-02-2000
Ethnic Studies Takes A Hit
By East Bay Bureau
OAKLAND -- In the 1960s when Merritt College was located on Grove Way it
was a hotbed for student protests and the Black Studies movement as young
African Americans rallied for what they called a more "relevant" education.
The Black Panthers organized in the late 1960s at Merritt. What San
Francisco State was to radicals in San Francisco, Merritt was to mili...
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