Nathan Hare Biography
Dr. Nathan Hare
Dr. Nathan Hare is often called "the Father of black studies." On February 1, 1968, he was hired at San Francisco State, as the first coordinator of a black studies program in the United States, to write a proposal for the first department of black studies. Then two semesters later he was fired in the face of his refusal to help the notoriously hard- line college president S. I. Hayakawa break a five-months strike by a campus-wide multiracial coalition of thousands of students and faculty members. Months after his firing for his role in the largely successful black student led strike for an autonomous department of black studies and a school of ethnic studies, Dr. Hare became the founding publisher of The Black Scholar.
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Garrett recruited to the campus as "Visiting Artist" the Black Arts
Movement spearhead, Amira Baraka, and BAM poets Sonia Sanchez and Askia
Muhammad Toure (Rolland Snellings) as black studies instructors. The Black Student
Union, the first so named in the nation, was building on the work of previous students such as San Francisco State's legendary LaBrie brothers and the BSU's "cultural nationalist" precursor, the Negro Student Association. It was by chance a younger
LaBrie brother, Huey LaBrie, now deceased, who led the Black Power Committee in the
1967 uprising at Howard.
When San Francisco State’s administrators (hogtied by then powerful conservative politicians in control of California governance) continued to balk on the promised establishment of a black studies department, Dr. Hare, as black studies coordinator, joined with the Black Student Union and thousands of black and white and
Dr. Nathan Hare is often called "the Father of black studies." On February 1, 1968, he was hired at San Francisco State, as the first coordinator of a black studies program in the United States, to write a proposal for the first department of black studies. Then two semesters later he was fired in the face of his refusal to help the notoriously hard- line college president S. I. Hayakawa break a five-months strike by a campus-wide multiracial coalition of thousands of students and faculty members. Months after his firing for his role in the largely successful black student led strike for an autonomous department of black studies and a school of ethnic studies, Dr. Hare became the founding publisher of The Black Scholar.
Commenting on Dr. …show more content…
Garrett recruited to the campus as "Visiting Artist" the Black Arts
Movement spearhead, Amira Baraka, and BAM poets Sonia Sanchez and Askia
Muhammad Toure (Rolland Snellings) as black studies instructors. The Black Student
Union, the first so named in the nation, was building on the work of previous students such as San Francisco State's legendary LaBrie brothers and the BSU's "cultural nationalist" precursor, the Negro Student Association. It was by chance a younger
LaBrie brother, Huey LaBrie, now deceased, who led the Black Power Committee in the
1967 uprising at Howard.
When San Francisco State’s administrators (hogtied by then powerful conservative politicians in control of California governance) continued to balk on the promised establishment of a black studies department, Dr. Hare, as black studies coordinator, joined with the Black Student Union and thousands of black and white and