pocsolidarity: Images of Solidarity- Early Asian American activism: The Oriental Student Union (OSU

pocsolidarity:

Images of Solidarity- Early Asian American activism:

The Oriental Student Union (OSU) at Seattle Central Community College (SCCC) was founded in 1970. It modeled itself after the campus Black Student Union (BSU), which during the 1968-9 school year had used direct action protests to demand black studies and the hiring of black administrators and faculty. When the OSU— led by Alan Sugiyama and former Black Panther Mike Tagawa— decided that the SCCC administration was not moving quickly enough on the its demands that the school hire five Asian administrators, the OSU staged a sit-in on February 9, 1971, and took over SCCC offices more forcefully on March 2, 1971.