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The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Jack Weinberg, Brian Turner, Bettina Apthecker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and others. In protests ...
Memorial to the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. 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]
Mario Savio (December 8, 1942 – November 6, 1996) was an American activist and a key member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially the "Bodies Upon the Gears" address given at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964.
Half a century after its tumultuous birth, People's Park in Berkeley, a treasured home for misfits and seekers, may have seen its last day A People's Park requiem: From free speech and flower ...
Free Speech Movement header Mario Savio addresses students at UC Berkeley in 1964. (Credit: Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)
Aptheker obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She was an activist in the W.E.B. Du Bois Club, a national youth organization sponsored by the Communist Party USA, and was involved in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement during the fall of 1964.
UC Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, adopted guidelines in 1966 to help students and administrators navigate First Amendment issues, which included creating ...
Sproul Plaza as well as Sproul Hall are named for the last (1930–1952) University of California, Berkeley president, Robert Gordon Sproul. The Plaza was designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin in 1962. At the time, the university was expanding its core campus southward from its prior border at Strawberry Creek to Bancroft Avenue, and ...