Twilight in the afternoon. The war at home: San Jose State College (1964-1970) (California, nonviolence, cultural revolution)

Making extensive use of the campus newspaper and recent sources, this thesis argues that the campus movement at San Jose State College was a conscious, pre-meditated, and self-directed revolution in form and fact for gaining power and control of the college governing apparatus. The thesis reviews non-violence as a weapon for social change on San Jose State's campus from 1964-1970, and the evolution of that movement as a social force in the Bay Area.; "In loco parentis" as an instrument of social control is reviewed, as are race relations in the Black movement on the campus, including Harry Edwards' proposed Black Boycott of the Mexico City Olympics. Cultural revolution is examined as a tool of the people to modify their social conditions and their social contract, resulting in the institutionalization of the 1960s youth movement in the San Jose State campus student governing apparatus.