Reginald E. Zelnik & Robert Cohen 
The Free Speech Movement 
Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s

This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley’s celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of American higher education. The contributors—whose perspectives range from that of FSM leader Mario Savio to University of California president Clark Kerr—-shed new light on such issues as the origins of the FSM in the civil rights movement, the political tensions within the FSM, the day-to-day dynamics of the protest movement, the role of the Berkeley faculty and its various factions, the 1965 trial of the arrested students, and the virtually unknown 'little Free Speech Movement of 1966.’

Spis treści

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Permissions and Credits

Preface, by Leon F. Litwack

List of Abbreviations


The Many Meanings of the FSM

Robert Cohen


Part I. Roots

Thirty Years Later: Reflections on the Free Speech Movement

Mario Savio

From Freedom Now! to Free Speech: The FSM’s Roots in the Bay Area Civil Rights Movement

Jo Freeman

Holding One Another: Mario Savio and the Freedom Struggle in Mississippi and Berkeley

Waldo Martin


Part II. Experience: Fall 1964

Students

War Is Declared!

Jackie Goldberg

My Life in the FSM: Memories of a Freshman

Margot Adler

Gender Politics and the FSM: A Meditation on Women and Freedom of Speech

Bettina Aptheker

Recollections of the FSM

Martin Roysher

A View from the South: The Idea of a State University

Henry Mayer

Endgame: How the Berkeley Grads Organized to Win

Steven Weissman

A View from the Margins

David Hollinger

Dressing for the Revolution

Kate Coleman

The 'Rossman Report’: A Memoir of Making History

Michael Rossman

The FSM and the Vision of a New Left

Jeff Lustig

This Was Their Fight and They Had to Fight It: The FSM’s Nonradical Rank and File

Robert Cohen


Faculty and Clergy

On the Side of the Angels: The Berkeley Faculty and the FSM

Reginald E. Zelnik

From the Big Apple to Berkeley: Perspectives of a Junior Faculty Member

Lawrence W. Levine

When the FSM Disturbed the Faculty Peace

Leon Wofsy

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Campus Ministry

Keith Chamberlain


Administration

Fall of 1964 at Berkeley: Confrontation Yields to Reconciliation

Clark Kerr


Part III. Legal and Constitutional Issues

Constitutionally Interpreting the FSM Controversy

Robert Post

December 1964: Some Reflections and Recollections

Robert H. Cole

The FSM: A Movement Lawyer’s Perspective

Malcolm Burnstein


Part IV. Aftermath

Mario Savio and Berkeley’s 'Little Free Speech Movement’ of 1966

Robert Cohen

The Limits of Freedom: Student Activists and Educational Reform at Berkeley in the 1960s

Julie A. Reuben

The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan

W. J. Rorabaugh

Mario Savio’s Second Act: The 1990s

Jonah Raskin

Part V. Thoughts about Mario Savio

Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity

Doug Rossinow

Remembering Mario

Lynne Hollander Savio

Mario, Personal and Political

Suzanne Goldberg

Elegy for Mario Salvio

Wendy Lesser

On Mario Savio

Greil Marcus

Mario Savio: The Avatar of Free Speech

Reginald E. Zelnik


Selected Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Robert Cohen is Associate Professor of Education at New York University and has an associated appointment in the NYU History Department. He is the author of When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 (1993), and editor of Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (2002). Reginald E. Zelnik is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his recent publications are Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872 (California, 1995) and Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections (1999).