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The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. [1] . The Movement was informally under the central leadership of Berkeley graduate student Mario Savio. [2] .
In the fall of 1964, the Berkeley campus of the University of California was rocked by the Free Speech Movement.
At The Bancroft Library, high schoolers from San Jose’s Hillbrook School inspect materials shining light on the Free Speech Movement and its historical context. (Photo by Jami Smith/UC Berkeley Library) The first lesson of the day: Today’s lesson is not like other lessons. It’s early afternoon on a Friday. The school year has just begun.
Mario Savio, facing camera foreground, leader of the so-called Free Speech Movement at the University of California, gathered a crowd of some 3,000 students in front of Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus on Dec. 2, 1964.
“The Free Speech Movement was the first revolt of the 1960s to bring to a college campus the mass civil disobedience tactics pioneered in the civil rights movement.
…formed a protest group, the Free Speech Movement, which kept student involvement and activism high for months. Why is New York City important in the United States? Professor of History, Fullerton College. His contributions to SAGE Publications’s Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (2007) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
Sixty years ago, the Free Speech Movement was born here at UC Berkeley, igniting a powerful wave of activism that swept the country. Thanks to the thousands who protested here in 1964, universities nationwide began to ensure students’ rights to free political speech.
It was the beginning of what was to become the Free Speech Movement, named by Weinberg at marathon meetings that weekend. Jack had been arrested at noon that Thursday for distributing civil rights literature and soliciting donations, activity that had recently been banned from the campus.
These images show UC Berkeley's Free Speech Movement as it happened. Photographs record the standoff and the aftermath. The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a college campus phenomenon inspired first by the struggle for civil rights and later fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War.
The Free Speech Movement started as a dispute over 26 feet of sidewalk and escalated into a pitched battle for control of the University of California at Berkeley. In the process, an entire school, students and faculty alike, was polarized into two camps fundamentally at odds with each other, both ideologically and in terms of rhetoric.