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Free Speech Radical

Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement.

By Don Lazere

Mario Savio’s place in American history is defined by the climax of the speech he gave as a 21-year-old student in December 1964, on the steps of the University of California administration building, at a key moment in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. The movement was a protest against the university’s clampdown on political speechmaking and recruiting for civil rights activism… return to article

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