The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
Reginald E. Zelnik
(Editor)
Robert Cohen
(Editor)
Description
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."Product Details
Price
$37.14
Publisher
University of California Press
Publish Date
October 01, 2002
Pages
638
Dimensions
6.1 X 8.98 X 1.59 inches | 2.33 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780520233546
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About the Author
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).
Reviews
"A healthy corrective to the trivialization of the counterculture in American pop culture. . . . To understand what it was like to come of age in the '60s, to understand how America was changed in profound and even revolutionary ways, we need to be reminded of what was really at stake when the banner of the Free Speech Movement was first raised in Sproul Plaza. . . . An impressive work of scholarship."--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
