num_pages: 384
description: This book is a memoir and a history of Berkeley in the early Sixties. As a young undergraduate, Jo Freeman was a key participant in the growth of social activism at the University of California, Berkeley. The story is told with the "you are there" immediacy of Freeman the undergraduate but is put into historical and political context by Freeman the scholar, 35 years later. It draws heavily on documents created at the time―letters, reports, interviews, memos, newspaper stories, FBI files―but is fleshed out with retrospective analysis. As events unfold, the campus conflicts of the Sixties take on a completely different cast, one that may surprise many readers.
language: English
title: At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Making of an Activist
titlecomplete: At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Making of an Activist
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Indiana University Press