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The Free Speech Movement had long-lasting effects at the Berkeley campus and was a pivotal moment for the civil liberties movement in the 1960s. It was seen as the beginning of the famous student activism that existed on the campus in the 1960s, and continues to a lesser degree today.
1964: "Bodies upon the gears" speech by American activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio. 1965: The American Promise by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, urging the United States Congress to pass a voting rights act prohibiting discrimination in voting on account of race and color in wake of the Bloody Sunday.
free speech advocate, comedian, political satirist Medgar Evers: 1925 1963 United States: NAACP official in the Mississippi Movement Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga: 1924 2018 United States: activist in Japanese-American redress movement: Frank Kameny: 1925 2011 United States: gay rights activist Malcolm X: 1925 1965 United States
Pages in category "American free speech activists" The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Despite the absence of a politically effective campus SDS chapter, Berkeley again became a center of particularly dramatic radical upheaval over the university's repressive anti-free-speech actions. One description of the convening of an enthusiastically supported student strike suggests the distance travelled from both the Left, and the civil ...
A protester holds up a large black power raised fist in the middle of the crowd that gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City for a Black Lives Matter Protest spurred by the death of George Floyd.
Autism rights movement movement advocating for the right of people who are considered neurally divergent (anti-psychiatry) Berlin movement; Black Consciousness Movement; Black Lives Matter; Black Power movement; Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; Brights movement; Chicano Movement; Children's rights movement; Civil rights movement; Climate ...
The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded on December 31, 1967.