The Third World Liberation Front | Activist History

In 1968-69, African American, Asian American, Chicano and Native American students at San Francisco State College and University of California, Berkeley (UCB) organized campus coalitions, known as the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), to address the lack of diversity among their students and faculty and staunchly Eurocentric education on their campuses.

The term “Third World” created a common basis of unity for the students in recognition of their shared experiences as minorities.