Berkeley Free Speech Movement
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, Protests, Marches, Demonstrations, Rallies
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: California
- Date: Beginning September 14, 1964
Article abstract: Students at the University of California launch a decade of student activism, protest, and social change.
Summary of Event
In the fall of 1964, after a September 14 ban on all political activities—from leafletting to soliciting funds—at the edge of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, campus, student activists launched a protest that soon spread campuswide. The Free Speech movement, as the students proclaimed themselves, signaled an end to silence and conformity at the nation’s colleges and universities, announcing a new...
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