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California Requires Ethnic Studies

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California became the first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation-a milestone rooted in the Asian American and Third World student movements of the late 1960s.

Topics
  • education
  • ethnic studies
Event type
  • death
Regions
  • pan-Asian

Sources

  • leginfo.legislature.ca.gov leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101
  • edsource.org edsource.org/2021/california-becomes-first-state-to-require-ethnic-studies-in-high-school/662219

Also on October 8

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Urvashi Vaid Born

Urvashi Vaid, born this day, became a leading LGBTQ-rights strategist and, as head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1989, the first woman of color to lead a national gay-and-lesbian organization. (Anchored on her birth anniversary; shares Oct 8 with California's ethnic-studies law.)