Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)

  • Is freedom academic? (Part 2 of 2)

    A day-by-day documentary of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, recorded by staff members of KPFA on the Berkeley Campus of the University of California. Part two. This part of the program documents the reactions of university and community supporters and opponents, after the students in the Free Speech Movement ended their demonstrations in early…

  • Is freedom academic? (Part 1 of 2)

    A day-by-day documentary of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, recorded by staff members of KPFA on the Berkeley Campus of the University of California. Part one. In mid-September, the Dean of Students at the University of California at Berkeley informed student political organizations that they would no longer be allowed to use the campus…

  • Sentencing of the Berkeley free speech movement defendants

    Speeches and interviews given by Free Speech Movement defendants as they are sentenced, enter, or are released from the Santa Rita detention center for their activities three years prior. Narrator Elsa Knight Thompson explains how on June 12, 1967 the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the Free Speech Movement case, she reads the…

  • The Berkeley riots : a KPFA documentary.

    Documentary from actuality of the Free Speech movement actions of October 1-2, which has been labeled the “Car Tap Rally.” Includes statements by Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, as well as the music of Joan Baez who came and gave a concert in support of the student demonstrators. 518 RECORDED: KPFA, 9 Oct. 1964.|THE BERKELEY RIOTS…

  • Free speech movement interviews / interviews conducted by KFRC staff.

    Series of interviews with various participants in the car top rally and free speech movement in Berkeley, 1-2 October. First is student leader Art Goldberg. Next is Inspector Dillon, California Highway Patrol, on who called them onto campus. Then there is a summary of events of October 1-2, followed by an interview with U.C. police…

  • The Car top rally.

    Actuality of student protests against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley.|THE CAR TOP RALLY – Actuality of student protests against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. Early morning interviews by Al Silbowitz of Mario Savio and other demonstrators| fraternaty brothers say they will go home if the other demonstrators give up…

  • Sit-in inside Sproul Hall.

    Actuality from renewed protest of students against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley’s Sproul Hall on October 1, 1964. Precursor to the Car Top Rally. The recording features students discussing sit-in strategies, singing protest songs and chants. It includes discussion among Arleigh Williams(Dean of Men), Mario Savio, Turner, Nate Coleman, Michael Rossman, Jim…

  • Free Speech Movement–“Car Top Rally” (Part 1)

    Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. START OF THE CAR TOP RALLY . Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. Side 1 (tape 1). Sproul Hall at 9:00 a.m.: Burton White reads student petition. Student discussion about giving leader names to the…

  • Free Speech Movement–“Car Top Rally” (Part 2)

    Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. pt.1. Burton White reads ASUC petition about privileges; Pickard talks about sitting at tables; Mario Savio says not to give up student names; Burton White describing tables going up around Sproul Hall; students speaking; the arrest of Jack Weinkey — pt.2. Students…

  • Bettina Aptheker interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Bettina Aptheker discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson her reasons for being a Communist Party member, her experiences as a young woman, traveling in Europe, and various related subjects. Knight mentions that it has been a year since Sproul Hall and the FSM activities, and asks Aptheker to discuss where she thinks the student movement is…