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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. [1]

37 relations: Academic freedom, Associated Students of the University of California, Barry Goldwater, Bill Lockyer, Caryl Chessman, Center for Democracy and Technology, Civil rights movement, Clark Kerr, Cold War, Counterculture of the 1960s, David Horowitz, David Lance Goines, David Walls (academic), Dennis Hale (political scientist), Free Speech Movement, Freedom Summer, House Un-American Activities Committee, Jackie Goldberg, Jo Freeman, Loyalty oath, McCarthyism, Michael Tigar, National Student Association, New Left, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, San Quentin State Prison, Seymour Martin Lipset, Sheldon Wolin, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Student rights in higher education, The Daily Californian, Trotskyism, University of California, Berkeley, W. J. Rorabaugh, Wilson Carey McWilliams, Young Democrats of America, Young Republicans.

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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Associated Students of the University of California

The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) is the officially recognized students' association of UC Berkeley.

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Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in 1964.

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Bill Lockyer

William Westwood Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is a veteran California politician, who held elective office from 1973 to 2015, as State Treasurer of California, California Attorney General, and President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate.

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Caryl Chessman

Caryl Whittier Chessman (May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960) was a convicted robber, kidnapper and rapist who was sentenced to death for a series of crimes committed in January 1948 in the Los Angeles area.

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Center for Democracy and Technology

Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen individual rights and freedoms by defining, promoting, and influencing technology policy and the architecture of the Internet.

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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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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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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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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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David Walls (academic)

David Walls (born October 21, 1941) is an activist and academic who has made significant contributions to Appalachian studies and to the popular understanding of social movements.

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Dennis Hale (political scientist)

Dennis Hale (born 1944) is an American political scientist who is an associate professor of political science at Boston College.

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Free Speech Movement

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.

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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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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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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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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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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Michael Tigar

Michael Edward Tigar (born January 18, 1941 in Glendale, California) is an American criminal defense attorney known for representing controversial clients.

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National Student Association

The United States National Student Association (NSA) was a confederation of college and university student governments that was in operation from 1947 to 1978.

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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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Reserve Officers' Training Corps

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) are a group of college and university-based officer training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.

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San Quentin State Prison

San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County.

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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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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.

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Student rights in higher education

Student rights are those rights, such as civil, constitutional, contractual and consumer rights, which regulate student rights and freedoms and allow students to make use of their educational investment.

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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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Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky.

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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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W. J. Rorabaugh

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

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Wilson Carey McWilliams

Wilson Carey McWilliams (2 September 1933 – 29 March 2005), aka Carey McWilliams, Jr., son of Carey McWilliams, was a political scientist at Rutgers University.

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Young Democrats of America

The Young Democrats of America (YDA) was founded in 1932 as the official youth arm of the Democratic Party of the United States.

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Young Republicans

The Young Republican National Federation, commonly referred to as the Young Republicans or YRNF, is a 527 organization for members of the Republican Party of the United States between the ages of 18 and 40.

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References

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

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