Reply #37: Thanks

[Karmadillo]

It's one of the few things my brain tries to keep memorized (add in "The Puffin" and the hard drive is pretty much full). It's too bad we don't have a few more Mario Savios around today. The Free Speech Movement was before my time, but Savio seems pretty amazing.

If you like the quote, you might like this book:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/08/12_book.html

Fresh, behind-the-scenes look at Free Speech Movement in new book by UC Berkeley, NYU professors

Berkeley - It's been nearly 40 years since the Free Speech Movement exploded onto the University of California, Berkeley, campus, changing the political atmosphere at colleges and universities across the country and providing generations to come with a model for student activism. Yet, few scholars or veterans of the movement have fully explored its origins, development and legacy.

Two history professors hope their new book, "The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s," (University of California Press) will give readers a fuller, more complex view.

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Key Free Speech Movement leaders, including Mario Savio, were heavily influenced by the Civil Rights Movement, launched as African Americans sought to end segregation in the South. Two of the essays examine this link. The main section of the book examines and illuminates the history of the Free Speech Movement, launched when campus administrators sought to bar students from setting up tables and passing out political literature on campus property. That administrative decision led to sit-ins, mass arrests, and a push by students for broader rights to advocate on campus for political causes.

The final sections of the book examine the aftermath of the movement and provide a closer look at Savio, its charismatic leader, who died in 1996 at age 53. Savio's premature death inspired the editors to undertake this book project in his memory.

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