The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
When the University of California at Berkeley erupted in 1964 into protests over freedom of speech, it set the stage for campus unrest in the turbulent 1960s. At the center of the Berkeley protest was the eloquent Mario Savio, primary orator in the student rebellion that became known as the free speech movement. He died in 1996, and in his memory, the editors and authors reexamine the free speech movement, where it fit into the ferment for social change, and its impact on campus and other protests that ensued. Essays by veterans of the movement, faculty members who were involved in the crisis, the former president of the university, historians of civil rights, and constitutional scholars recall the atmosphere of the time, the struggle within universities to address growing discontent with the old model of docile students separate and apart from professors and administrators, and growing social and political ferment in the nation. This is an absorbing look back through personal accounts and political analyses at a student protest that continues to reverberate.Vanessa BushCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.