We are struggling to keep these pages organized and make things
easy to find, not an easy task considering the wide range of materials and continual
additions. We hope that a journal-like listing of additions will help you find the most
recent items more easily.
February 2005 -
Fell November - Memorial Poem for
Mario Savio - by Richard Schmorleitz
October 2004 -
photos, program and some speech transcripts from the 40th FSM Reunion: FSM@40
March 2004 - Replacing old email addresses and other
housekeeping.
February 2004 -
Free Speech Movement Activist Finds Tarnish On Clark Kerr's Legacy
(A Letter by Michael Rossman)
January 2004 -
Updated Journalism Bibliography adds new links to Kerr's death articles.
December 2003
Many links re. the death of Clark Kerr
on Dec. 2, 2003 added to Bibliography.
July 2003
An update with new links and items in the Bibliography pages by Barbara Stack
HERE
March 2003
Barbara Stack updated her continual work in progress, the
wonderful Bibliography here.
October 2002
We celebrated the publication of Reg Zelnik's and Robby Cohen's new book:
The Free Speech Movement - Reflections on Berkeley in the Sixties
and photos of the event are here.
August 2002
Barbara Stack has updated the Bibliography with new additions and links.
See it HERE
July 2002
Added an editorial from SF Chronicle by Ralph
Gleason "A Tragedy at the Greek Theater"
Various clean up of links, Missing Vets and Friends
and sadly, we have added a Deceased List.
November 2001
The annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture
and Young Activist Award ceremony
took place on November 15, 2001
Dr. Cornel West
"Progressive Politics In These Times: From Vision to Action"
it is now available on a video:
Video #39 available
from DemocracyU - Here
Feb. 2000
SLATE Reunion Announcement for May 2000
Jan. 2000
Pacific News Strike Press Conf. at KPFA
Dec 1999
Added photos of KPFA Court hearing in
Oakland.
Nov. 1999
Page of photos of the new FSM Cafe under construction
at the Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley.
July - Nov 1999
Links and photos covering the Crisis at KPFA
March 15, 1999
Graduate Students in Poli Sci Preliminary Report
from Dec 1964 - "The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy"
March 9-13, 1999
Many many pages added, particularly the appendix pages for the Administrative Pressures
and Student Activities Report (aka the "Rossman Report").
February 1999
Moved the new Home Page into place.
December 5-6, 1998
Added a Search
Engine for the site. Now it's possible to search
for words and terms.
Added new Cover Page for Mario Savio's words
and new texts of Savio's speeches and writing.
November 27, 1998
Event Dec 4, 1998: Announcement
of 2nd Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture
November
More preparation work for the new Home Page and its panels of information.
Added Barbara Stack's Bibliography to Subsequent
Journalism.
October 18-22, 1998
Much material added: Progressive Labor Party leaflet, FSM-Archives formation story, Bibliography of Mass Media articles, many links added
within documents and the new Home Page about ready to move into place.
October 16, 1998
Made the "under construction" new FSM-A Home Page
visible and linked to the current Home Page for possible comments and feedback. Many links
still not established, but the overall idea ready to show.
Early October 1998
Much work on re-organizing the site (behind the scenes) and making order from the growing
collections of documents so visitors will find it more useful.
September 28-29, 1998
Various site organizing done.
Cover pages set up to lead to existing (and planned for addition) documents in categories
of: Narratives, Analyses, Mass-Media, Chronologies and Retrospectives & Reflections.
September 26, 1998
Joel Pimsleur, "Inside Sproul Hall" written
to Ralph Gleason, A young reporter assigned to cover the Sproul Hall sit-in
from inside writes about what he can't report.in 1964.
September 25, 1998
Spartacist Leaflet - Pluralist Society or Class Rule? Dec. 1964
FSM Leaflets - Administrative Bungling and other additions to the Leaflet Library
Suzanne Goldberg - Empowerment & the FSM, talk at the 1984 FSM Reunion
September 23, 1998
Calvin Trillin's - Letter from Berkeley - March 1965
September 20, 1998
Kaufman-Folsom - FSM - An Interpretive Essay from DuBois booklet,
includes photos by Howard Harawitz
Bettina Aptheker - Women & The FSM - from the 1984 FSM Reunion Panel
Discussion
September 19, 1998
Bettina Aptheker - The FSM: An Historical Narrative, Feb. 1965
Added an Index page leading to
the growing section: Narratives of the Free Speech
Movement
September 16, 1998
Margo Adler's - Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and
Revolution, chapter 4
Several FSM Chronologies added
- linked from Chronologies of the Conflict
August-September 1998
Statements - USLO Leaflets File, organization
of University Students for Law and Order, was organized as an alternative course of action
to the Free Speech Movement.
Chronology of Events, 9/14 -12/10/64
prepared by a Fact-Finding Committee of Graduate Political Scientists, December 13, 1964.
Chronology of Major and Controversial Events from Revolution at Berkeley: The Crisis in American Education, edited by
Michael V. Miller and Susan Gilmore; Dial Press, N.Y., 1965.
Chronicle of the Free Speech Controversy- prepared by the FSM Press Central
May 1998
Chronology of Events, Three Months of Crisis, Part
One (Sept - Oct 1964). This detailed time table is from the California Monthly (alumni
magazine).
We Want A University - dedicated to the 800
Added several new leaflets, now
all titles are linked in the Leaflet Index.
"A Faculty Message on the Proposed Solution to the
Free Speech Controversy", Dec. 1964
"The
Free Speech Movement and Civil Rights" by Jack Weinberg, written Jan. 1965
Quo Warranto: The "Berkeley Issue" by John R.
Seeley, originally published in Ramparts Magazine in 1965.
Added another photo from
Rich Muller's collection: Chancellor Strong with Bullhorn
Birth of the Free Speech Movement by Michael
Rossman
April 1998
Area called STACKS which will be the area of documents and non-FSM
leaflet items.
Both an alphabetical and chronological listing of archived material, links to
be added as these items are digitized and added to FSM-A site.
Bob Aviakan's essay: "On Becoming a Revolutionary"
Updated and added many new
links to Mario Savio Links page.
Present
at the Birth: A Free Speech Movement Journal by Robert Hurwitt
March 1998
Added the first 19 chapters of
Hal Draper's long out-of-print book, Berkeley:
The New Student Revolt.
An End to History by Mario Savio, from a tape made
in Sproul Hall the night of the arrests, Dec. 1964
Transcript
of the Free Speech Movement 20th
Anniversary Project, Noon Rally -- Sproul Plaza, Tuesday, October 2,
1984