Oral History: Bruce Hartford
Oral History
Interviewed at his home on Harrison Street in the Mission District, 2011, by Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott
In these clips Hartford describes San Francisco State before and during the 1968-69 strike, his experiences with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter there, and takes a broad look at San Francisco and activism.
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In these clips Hartford describes working on the San Francisco waterfront as a longshoreman, including some of the daily life culture of that workforce, the 1971 waterfront strike, and then GI anti-war organizing in Japan during the Vietnam War.
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