Full Description
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 writings offers insight into and perspective on the disruptive yet nonviolent civil disobedience tactics used by Savio. The Essential Mario Savio is the perfect introduction to an American icon and to one of the most important social movements of the post-war period in the United States.
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
