Monthly Archives: October 2014

Free Speech Movement begins at University of California, Berkeley 50 years ago today (Oct 1 1964)


Video: 'Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley (1964) - from THE EDUCATION ARCHIVE'

(Thursday, October 1, 1964) — The Free Speech Movement (FSM) began at the University of California, Berkeley, today as students spontaneously protested the arrest of Berkeley alumnus Jack Weinberg, who’d refused to identify himself to campus police as he sat behind a table promoting the Congress of Racial Equality.