Join us on ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ด๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฑ at ๐ณ:๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฝ๐บ for ๐๐๐บ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐: ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐๐, an in-store conversation with CSULB lecturer and author of ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต 75, ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐๐น๐ฒ๐-๐ช๐ถ๐น๐๐ผ๐ป, and award-winning editor, organizer, and CSULB graduate, ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐'๐ข๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐. Using Kingsley-Wilson's book as a starting point, the two will discuss the university's tumultuous and scrappy history since its groundbreaking in 1949 with a focus on the parallels between the anti-Vietnam war protests on campus and the current pro-Palestine protests, and what that history can teach us right now.
Long Beach State began in 1949 with the registration of 169 students at a strawberry stand on Pacific Coast Highway and early classes being held in the dining rooms of under-construction apartments. From these humble beginnings, California State University, Long Beach now boasts a student body of close to 40,000 students and one of the highest application rates in the country.
Barbara Kingsley-Wilson's second book, ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ต 75, is a stylish decade-by-decade photo history that chronicles the collegeโs founding, its explosive expansion, and its growing pains and adventures along the way. From football in the 1950s, to campus protests in the 1960s, to Jefferson Airplane concerts in 1970s, through the COVID lockdowns of the 2020s, including the challenges of building the Walter Pyramid, the uphill fight to establish womenโs sports on campus, and battles over faculty governance, sacred land, and womenโs studies, the book gives an detailed and unflinching look at the university's storied history. Also featured are interviews with students from varied backgrounds and those who played important roles in making the college what it is today, including vignettes on students who went on to fame, such as Steve Martin, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band co-founder John McEuen, the Carpenters, and Steven Spielberg.
๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐๐น๐ฒ๐-๐ช๐ถ๐น๐๐ผ๐ป is a full-time lecturer and media advisor at Cal State Long Beach. Before coming to CSULB in 2004, she was a journalist for 20 years, covering courts, crime, education, and sports for newspapers in the Midwest and Upstate New York, Southern California, and with USA Today. She spent the summer of 1995 in Amman, Jordan, interviewing women and government officials as part of a grant to study women and sports. She has won awards from the Associated Press, Orange County and Los Angeles press clubs, and contributed stories to the Orange County Register's Pulitzer-Prize winning coverage of a fertility scandal. Her first book, ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ: ๐ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ, was published in 2015. In addition to teaching, she is a freelance writer and certified yoga instructor who enjoys biking and nerding out on Long Beach history. She lives in Long Beach with her family.
๐ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐'๐ข๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ is an award-winning editor, photographer, and labor philosophy graduate at Long Beach State, where her research explores corporate harm, responsibility, and the moral weight of work under capitalism. Rooted in a background in labor organizing and grassroots journalism, her practice moves between the theoretical and the material, examining how stories, structures, and oppressive systems shape the lives of working people. Her earlier work includes winning campaigns with Big Labor, waste research fieldwork with CalRecycle, and communications at a statewide nonprofit that worked to hold discriminatory banks accountable. She lives on the unceded Tongva land of Long Beach with her two cats, Astrid and Fudge. She can be found at the library or with a cup of red wine at the movies.
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