Womanists: BSU student strikers of 1968

The 1968 Student Strike, the longest student strike in United State's history, was initiated at San Francisco State College by the Black Student Union (BSU), a group of young women and men in common activist effort. This thesis examines the involvement of a group of young women to discern the impact of that activism on their lives from that period to the present. The study will be conducted by interviewing former women of the BSU, living or visiting northern California, about their lives after their involvement in the strike at San Francisco State College (now State University). This study contributes to developments in Womanist theory, which examines Black women's agency as activists in their own lives and that of their community. Moreover, it contributes to the literature that focuses on pro-active Black women, who contrary to societal malaise, are not afflicted with an "invisibility disease," but rather, as noted by author Alice Walker's definition of Womanist, are by choice, not subjugation, "Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female."