The Essential Mario Savio : Speeches and Writings that Changed America.

By:

Cohen, Robert

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (723 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520959262
0520959264
0520283384
9780520283381
0520283376
9780520283374

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Essential Mario Savio : Speeches and Writings that Changed America.DDC classification:

378.1/981/0979467

LOC classification:

LD760

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Editor's Note; Foreword: Tom Hayden; Introduction; 1. The Making of a Berkeley Civil Rights Activist; 2. Going South: Freedom Summer, 1964; 3. Leading the Free Speech Movement: Protest and Negotiation, September-November 1964; 4. "No Restrictions on the Content of Speech": Savio and the FSM Win, December 1964; Coda; Afterword: Robert B. Reich; Epilogue: Lynne Hollander Savio; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent blockade around a police car, occupations of the campus administration building, and a student strike united thousands of students to champion the right of students to free speech and unrestricted political advocacy on campus. This compendium of influential speeches and previously unknown.

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The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent blockade around a police car, occupations of the campus administration building, and a student strike united thousands of students to champion the right of students to free speech and unrestricted political advocacy on campus. This compendium of influential speeches and previously unknown.