The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent blockade around a police car, occupations of the campus administration building, and a student strike united thousands of students to champion the right of students to free speech and un...
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Note
Foreword
Tom Hayden
Introduction
1. The Making of a Berkeley Civil Rights Activist
2. Going South: Freedom Summe...
About the author
Robert Cohen is Professor of History and Social Studies in New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is an affiliated...