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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786606303321

Titolo

The essential Mario Savio : speeches and writings that changed America / / edited by Robert Cohen ; foreword by Tom Hayden ; afterword by Robert Reich ; epilogue by Lynne Hollander Savio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95926-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (723 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/981092

Soggetti

Political activists - United States

Civil rights workers - United States

Student movements - California - Berkeley - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Foreword -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960's 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.