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Free Speech Movement

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The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. [1]

74 relations: Academic freedom, Activism, African Americans, Alliance of Libertarian Activists, Ayn Rand, Bancroft Library, Bettina Aptheker, C. Wright Mills, City Journal (New York City), Civil rights movement, Clark Kerr, COINTELPRO, Congress of Racial Equality, Counterculture of the 1960s, Cuban Revolution, David Horowitz, David Lance Goines, Documentary film, Dublin, California, Edward Strong, Edwin Meese, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Free speech fights, Freedom of speech, Freedom Riders, Freedom Summer, George R. Stewart, Glenn T. Seaborg, Governor of California, Hal Draper, Hippie, House Un-American Activities Committee, Jack Weinberg, Jackie Goldberg, Jo Freeman, Joan Baez, John Schaar, John Searle, Katherine Amelia Towle, Lists of protests against the Vietnam War, Loyalty oath, Mario Savio, Martin Meyerson, Mass arrest, Moffitt Library, Molly Ivins, New Left, News broadcasting, Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, Pat Brown, ..., Regents of the University of California, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco, San Francisco City Hall, Santa Rita Jail, Sather Gate, Seymour Martin Lipset, Sheldon Wolin, Sit-in, SLATE, Sol Stern, Sproul Plaza, Student protest, Students for a Democratic Society, Telegraph Avenue, Ten Speed Press, The Daily Californian, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, Town and gown, University of California, Berkeley, Vietnam Day Committee, W. J. Rorabaugh, William E. Forbes, 1960s Berkeley protests. Expand index (24 more) »

Academic freedom

Academic freedom is the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.

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Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alliance of Libertarian Activists

Alliance of Libertarian Activists (ALA) was a libertarian student organization primarily located in the San Francisco Bay area, mostly active at University of California, Berkeley, established in 1965-1966, and considered the first campus group to adopt the term “libertarian.” ALA gained members from both the purged Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) Moïse Tshombe chapter and the Cal Conservatives for Political Action (CCPA) at UC Berkeley, which was a continuation of the 1964 Cal Students for Goldwater, both founded and first chaired by Dan Rosenthal.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.

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Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Fay Aptheker (born September 13, 1944) is an American political activist, radical feminist, professor and author.

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C. Wright Mills

Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962.

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City Journal (New York City)

City Journal is a quarterly magazine published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank based in New York City.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Clark Kerr

Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was an American professor of economics and academic administrator.

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COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO (Portmanteau derived from '''CO'''unter '''INTEL'''ligence PROgram) (1956-1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

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Congress of Racial Equality

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

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Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

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David Horowitz

David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer.

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David Lance Goines

David Lance Goines (born May 29, 1945) is an American artist, calligrapher, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Dublin, California

Dublin (formerly, Amador and Dougherty's Station) is a suburban city of the East (San Francisco) Bay and Tri-Valley regions of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Edward Strong

Edward W. Strong was the Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley between 1961 and 1965.

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Edwin Meese

Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967–1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980) and the Reagan White House (1981–1985), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985–1988).

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Free speech fights

Free speech fights are struggles over free speech, and especially those struggles which involved the Industrial Workers of the World and their attempts to gain awareness for labor issues by organizing workers and urging them to use their collective voice.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.

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Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.

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George R. Stewart

George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Hal Draper

Hal Draper (born Harold Dubinsky; September 19, 1914 – January 26, 1990) was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement.

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Hippie

A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, or House Committee on Un-American Activities, or HCUA) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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Jack Weinberg

Jack Weinberg (born April 4, 1940) is an environmental activist and former New Left activist who is best known for his role in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.

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Jackie Goldberg

Jackie Goldberg is an American politician and teacher, and a member of the Democratic Party.

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Jo Freeman

Jo Freeman (born August 26, 1945) is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.

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John Schaar

John H(omer) Schaar (July 7, 1928 – December 26, 2011) was a scholar and political theorist.

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John Searle

John Rogers Searle (born 31 July 1932) is an American philosopher.

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Katherine Amelia Towle

Colonel Katherine Amelia Towle (April 30, 1898 - March 1, 1986) was the second Director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR) and the first Director of Women Marines.

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Lists of protests against the Vietnam War

Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Loyalty oath

A loyalty oath is an oath of loyalty to an organization, institution, or state of which an individual is a member.

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Mario Savio

Mario Savio (December 8, 1942 – November 6, 1996) was an American activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.

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Martin Meyerson

Martin Meyerson (14 November 1922 – 2 June 2007) was a United States city planner and academic leader best known as the President of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) between 1970 and 1981.

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Mass arrest

A mass arrest occurs when police apprehend large numbers of suspects at once.

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Moffitt Library

Moffitt Library, designed by John Carl Warnecke in the late 1960s as a cutting-edge library for undergraduates, sits at the crossroads of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Molly Ivins

Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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News broadcasting

News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio, or internet in the field of broadcast journalism.

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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1964 against the escalating role of the U.S. military in the Vietnam War and grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years.

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Pat Brown

Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd Governor of California from 1959 to 1967.

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Regents of the University of California

The Regents of the University of California is the governing board of the University of California system.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco City Hall

San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California.

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Santa Rita Jail

Santa Rita Jail is a county jail located in Dublin, Alameda County, California adjacent to the Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area, and operated by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

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Sather Gate

Sather Gate is a prominent landmark separating Sproul Plaza from the bridge over Strawberry Creek, leading to the center of the University of California, Berkeley campus.

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Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist.

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Sheldon Wolin

Sheldon Sanford Wolin (August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015) was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics.

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Sit-in

A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.

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SLATE

SLATE, a pioneer organization of the New Left and precursor of the Free Speech Movement and formative counterculture era, was a campus political party at the University of California, Berkeley from 1958 to 1966.

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Sol Stern

Sol Stern (born 1935) is the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice (2003), and has written extensively on education reform.

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Sproul Plaza

Sproul Plaza (pronounced) is a major center of student activity at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Student protest

Student protest encompasses a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities (university or civil or both) and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem.

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Students for a Democratic Society

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left.

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Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue is a street that begins, at its southernmost point, in the midst of the historic downtown district of Oakland, California, and ends, at its northernmost point, at the southern edge of the University of California campus in Berkeley, California.

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Ten Speed Press

Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by Philip Wood.

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The Daily Californian

The Daily Californian (Daily Cal) is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community.

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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools.

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Town and gown

Town and gown are two distinct communities of a university town; "town" being the non-academic population and "gown" metonymically being the university community, especially in ancient seats of learning such as Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and St Andrews, although the term is also used to describe modern university towns as well as towns with a significant public school.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Vietnam Day Committee

The Vietnam Day Committee (VDC) was a coalition of left-wing political groups, student groups, labour organizations, and pacifist religions in the United States of America that opposed the Vietnam War during the counterculture era.

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W. J. Rorabaugh

W.J. (William Joseph) Rorabaugh (born 1945) is an American historian.

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William E. Forbes

William E. Forbes (May 30, 1906 – August 14, 1999) was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California and owner of the Southern California Music Co.

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1960s Berkeley protests

The Berkeley protests were a series of events at the University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley, California, in the 1960s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement

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