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