TY - BOOK AU - Cohen,Robert TI - The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings that Changed America SN - 9780520959262 AV - LD760 U1 - 378.1/981/0979467 PY - 2014/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Savio, Mario. KW - Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.) KW - History KW - fast KW - Political activists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Civil rights workers KW - Student movements KW - California KW - Berkeley KW - Activistes KW - États-Unis KW - Biographies KW - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme KW - Mouvements étudiants KW - Californie KW - Histoire KW - EDUCATION KW - Higher KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Sociology KW - General KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - hilcc KW - Human Rights KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=817341 ER -