This essay includes an interview with Black Student Union co-founders Jerry Varnado and James Garrett in which they reflect on their leadership roles and personal experiences at San Francisco State in the 1960s as well as the events around the student-led strike and subsequent founding of the School of Ethnic Studies. They also discuss their wider activism and community engagement in the field of Ethnic Studies as well as their thoughts on the direction of the field today.

Keywords:
Black Student Union, BSU/TWLF Strike, Ethnic Studies, James Garrett, Jerry Varnado, San Francisco State University
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2019
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