Complex sentence: A year earlier, the Third World Liberation Front's 1968 strike at San Francisco State University against what strikers saw as an oppressive and racist administration led to the nation's first Ethnic Studies program.
Split into simpler sentences: A year earlier, the Third World Liberation Front's 1968 strike had occurred at San Francisco State University. The strikers' demands against what they saw as an oppressive and racist administration led to the nation's first Ethnic Studies program.