Current Exhibits

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Labor Heroes

4th Floor, Library Exhibit Cases

Graphic artist Jos Sances and educator Bill Morgan created this wonderful series of drawings and biographies as a basic introduction to the labor movement in the United States. The panels are based on a larger set of “labor hero” trading cards, a selection of which are displayed in each case. Sances and Morgan chose working class leaders who were activists in unions as well as other justice movements in order to illustrate the strong connection between labor and progressive social change....

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Relevant Education! SF State’s struggle for Ethnic Studies

4th floor (east wall display cases)

Fifty years ago, student activists from the Black Student Union, Third World Liberation Front, and Students for a Democratic Society led a five-month strike that would establish San Francisco State as home of the first College of Ethnic Studies in the nation. Examine iconic images and texts from the SF State Strike Collection housed in the University Archives and then explore the deeper meaning of this struggle with the Strike Chronology LibGuide where dates are linked to digitized...
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Exhibit: Teaching HIV/AIDS Awareness: SF State’s Pioneering Curriculum

In honor of World AIDS Day, the University Archives invites you to visit a display of selected materials from the campus-wide AIDS Coordinating Committee that developed SF State’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis beginning in 1985. Come explore how SF State exemplified its social justice mission in the classroom, on campus, and in the community with classes, workshops, peer-education programs, and events organized by the Committee and student groups.

Open November 30, 2018-January 31,...