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Oh, 1969. A lot of white books that Loretta this convocation called in Hope is also historic. It's the first time in American college has stopped all its academic pursuit to devote its entire attention to the educational needs and demands of American minorities. Right? Yeah. 1 30

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to 4 o'clock the evening session from 7 30 to 9 30. In addition, please go there. Please need mhm that may be heard in the common in the dormitories. Complications will run from 12, both in the college and in the community and that the problem of

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having a department within the college that trying to provide for maximum responsible go over to the island because there was a black student union being going over. It's not one of his contract, uh, explanation for that. Is that the hunter, after self determination after season, that

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power that will allow us to determine what type of education that we have? No. Keep it in mind. When I said that the faculty and the administration has been achieved enemies. Not quite. Students. Yeah, not white students. The faculty and the administration achieved enemies. Now people

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say, Well, this is the first time that you have come before people to talk this thing through. We help them to so many meetings until I can't number countless meetings with the administration. We have brought in people from the community and the black community to meet

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with these people, and, uh, they constantly involved themselves and intellectual discourse. The three day convocation is not expected to solve any of the problems that have plagued San Francisco State College, but it will be the most complete airing so far of the issues raised by the

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black Students Union and other minority groups on campus issues, which call for fundamental change in the state college system. Ben Williams for eyewitness News From San Francisco State College Yeah.