The Essential Mario Savio Speeches and Writings that Changed America [Hardcover]

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent blockade around a police car, occupations of the campus administration building, and a student strike united thousands of students to champion the right of students to free speech and unrestricted political advocacy on campus.

This compendium of influential speeches and previously unknown writings offers insight into and perspective on the disruptive yet nonviolent civil disobedience tactics used by Savio.The Essential Mario Saviois the perfect introduction to an American icon and to one of the most important social movements of the post-war period in the United States.

Robert Cohenis Professor of History and Social Studies in New York Universitys Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is an affiliated member of NYUs History Department. His books includeFreedoms Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s,The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s(coedited with Reginald E. Zelnik), andRebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s(coedited with David S. Snyder).

Tom Haydenis an American social and political activist, author, and politician. He was a founder of Students for a Democratic Society; the primary author of the SDSs manifesto, the Port Huron Statement; and a member of the California State Legislature for eighteen years. He is director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City, California.

Robert Reichwas the U.S. Secretary of Labor in the Clinton adminstration. He is Chancellors Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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