- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions and Credits
- Preface
- Note
- List of Abbreviations
- The Many Meanings of the FSM
- Thirty Years Later
- From Freedom Now! to Free Speech
- Holding One Another
- War Is Declared!
- My Life in the FSM
- Gender Politics and the FSM
- Recollections of the Free Speech Movement
- A View from the South
- Endgame
- A View from the Margins
- Dressing for the Revolution
- The “Rossman Report”
- The FSM and the Vision of a New Left
- This Was Their Fight and They Had to Fight It
- On the Side of the Angels
- From the Big Apple to Berkeley
- When the FSM Disturbed the Faculty Peace
- The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Campus Ministry
- Fall of 1964 at Berkeley
- Constitutionally Interpreting the FSM Controversy
- December 1964
- The FSM
- Mario Savio and Berkeley’s “Little Free Speech Movement” of 1966
- The Limits of Freedom
- The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan
- Mario Savio’s Second Act
- Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity
- Remembering Mario
- Mario, Personal and Political
- Elegy for Mario Savio
- On Mario Savio
- Mario Savio
- Bancroft Collection Oral Histories
- Frequently Cited and Essential Published Works
- Index
My Life in the FSM
My Life in the FSM
Memories of a Freshman
- Chapter:
- (p.111) My Life in the FSM
- Source:
- The Free Speech Movement
- Author(s):
Margot Adler
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter elaborates on this chapter's author's experience as a student activist in the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California, Berkeley. It explains that joining the FSM was an obvious choice for her even as a freshman having already taken part in many political activities in her home state in New York. It discusses the early activities of the FSM, her participation in the Sproul Plaza rally, and her later experience in jail. It describes her feeling of ecstasy at the sense of community bonding and collective power followed by a sense of total powerlessness. The FSM asked for students' rights as citizens, argued for self-directed education, and helped to usher in a whole decade of experimentation.
Keywords: student activist, FSM, Sproul Plaza, rally, community bonding, collective power, students' rights, self-directed education, University of California, Berkeley
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions and Credits
- Preface
- Note
- List of Abbreviations
- The Many Meanings of the FSM
- Thirty Years Later
- From Freedom Now! to Free Speech
- Holding One Another
- War Is Declared!
- My Life in the FSM
- Gender Politics and the FSM
- Recollections of the Free Speech Movement
- A View from the South
- Endgame
- A View from the Margins
- Dressing for the Revolution
- The “Rossman Report”
- The FSM and the Vision of a New Left
- This Was Their Fight and They Had to Fight It
- On the Side of the Angels
- From the Big Apple to Berkeley
- When the FSM Disturbed the Faculty Peace
- The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Campus Ministry
- Fall of 1964 at Berkeley
- Constitutionally Interpreting the FSM Controversy
- December 1964
- The FSM
- Mario Savio and Berkeley’s “Little Free Speech Movement” of 1966
- The Limits of Freedom
- The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan
- Mario Savio’s Second Act
- Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity
- Remembering Mario
- Mario, Personal and Political
- Elegy for Mario Savio
- On Mario Savio
- Mario Savio
- Bancroft Collection Oral Histories
- Frequently Cited and Essential Published Works
- Index
