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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Tom, author of introduction, etc.

Reich, Robert, author of introduction, etc.

Savio, Lynne Hollander, author of afterword, colophon, etc.

Contributor:

Cohen, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

Student movements--California--Berkeley--History.

Student movements.

Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)--History.

Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.).

Savio, Mario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (723 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520959262

0520959264

OCLC:

883566017