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Bookmark or Share- Free Speech Movement | American history | Britannica…formed a protest group, the Free Speech Movement, which kept student involvement and activism high for months. Why is New York City important in the United States? Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”? Professor of History, Fullerton College.
- Berkeley's Free Speech Movement turns 60While FSM activists were coming out of the cresting civil rights movement and incipient organizing against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Mario Savio championed the principle of free speech as a moral and spiritual imperative itself more than a political tactic.
- Free Speech Movement | UC Berkeley LibraryThey situate the Free Speech Movement in the context of larger political issues and social movements that preceded the movement, such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Loyalty Oath controversy, and those which came after, such as the anti-Vietnam War activism.
- The Free Speech Movement at Sixty and Today’s Unfree UniversitiesThe Free Speech Movement, despite its commitment to the bedrock constitutional value of freedom of speech and to nonviolence, was often depicted as subversive and riotous, and so was opposed by the majority of the California electorate. And the anti–Gaza war movement, though sparked by humanitarian concern about the massive civilian ...
- ‘You can’t let it all go away’: 60 years later, the Free Speech ...The Free Speech Movement, like the anti-apartheid activism that would follow, resulted in victory — a vote by Berkeley’s Academic Senate to lift restrictions on the content of speech on campus. The movement went on to inspire students fighting for change across the country.
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