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The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s

Robert Cohen

Abstract

This book is about Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, the chapters of this book illuminate in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of American higher education. The chapters shed new light on such issues as the origins of the FSM in the civil rights movement, the political tensions within the FSM, the day-to-day dynamics of the protest movement, the role of the Berkeley faculty and its various factions, the 1965 trial of the arrested students, and the virtually unknown “little Free Speec ... More

Keywords: Berkeley, Free Speech Movement, higher education, civil rights movement, political tensions, protest movement, 1965 trial

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2002 Print ISBN-13: 9780520222212
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1525/california/9780520222212.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Robert Cohen, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Permissions and Credits

Preface

Note

List of Abbreviations

The Many Meanings of the FSM

Robert Cohen

Part One Roots

Thirty Years Later

Mario Savio

From Freedom Now! to Free Speech

Jo Freeman

Holding One Another

Waldo Martin

part two Experience

War Is Declared!

Jackie Goldberg

My Life in the FSM

Margot Adler

Gender Politics and the FSM

Bettina Aptheker

Recollections of the Free Speech Movement

Martin Roysher

A View from the South

Henry Mayer

Endgame

Steve Weissman

A View from the Margins

David A. Hollinger

Dressing for the Revolution

Kate Coleman

The “Rossman Report”

Michael Rossman

The FSM and the Vision of a New Left

Jeff Lustig

This Was Their Fight and They Had to Fight It

Robert Cohen

On the Side of the Angels

Reginald E. Zelnik

From the Big Apple to Berkeley

Lawrence W. Levine

When the FSM Disturbed the Faculty Peace

Leon Wofsy

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Campus Ministry

Keith Chamberlain

Fall of 1964 at Berkeley

Clark Kerr

part three Legal and Constitutional Issues

Constitutionally Interpreting the FSM Controversy

Robert Post

December 1964

Robert H. Cole

The FSM

Malcolm Burnstein

part four Aftermath

Mario Savio and Berkeley’s “Little Free Speech Movement” of 1966

Robert Cohen

The Limits of Freedom

Julie A. Reuben

The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan

W. J. Rorabaugh

Mario Savio’s Second Act

Jonah Raskin

part five Thoughts about Mario Savio

Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity

Doug Rossinow

Remembering Mario

Lynne Hollander Savio

Mario, Personal and Political

Suzanne Goldberg

Elegy for Mario Savio

Wendy Lesser

On Mario Savio

Greil Marcus

Mario Savio

Reginald E. Zelnik

End Matter

Bancroft Collection Oral Histories

Frequently Cited and Essential Published Works

Index