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THE source for original FSM documents and scholarship


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Herbert Bradford Cleaveland
11/19/1932–10/21/2019

December 3, 1964: Jim Jumblatt photo
©FSM Archives
Occupied Sproul Hall. F S M signs by Peter Wiesner
November 20, 1964: March to Regents' Meeting
L to R: Mona Hutchin, Ron Anastasi, ... John Leggett, John Searle, Michael Rossman, Jack Weinberg, Sallie Shawl, Mario Savio, Ken Cloke.
Bob Johnson photo ©FSM Archives All rights reserved
October 1, 1964:
Jackie Goldberg speaks atop police car
by Ron Enfield © Ronald L. Enfield.
Subversives
The Essental Mario Savio
by Robert Cohen
Also Don't Forget that the FSM was mostly about looooooooong meetings among diverse constituencies and writing pamphlets.
About listening and persuasion.
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power
by Seth Rosenfeld

Contents

What Happened during the FSM
● Short Histories
● Short photo history
● Chronologies
● Press
● Books, poetry, fiction, other
● Journalism1964 to the present 3900+ articles
● Art
● Photos
● Film & Video
● Audio & Music listen! Includes KPFA recordings
● FSM Objects
● The Start of the FSM
 ● Internal Organization of the FSM
● How News of FSM Traveled
● Opposition
● Nonviolence
● FSM Work Ethic
● Religious Voices
● The FSM and Farm Workers

1964-65 Original Documents from students, faculty, administration
● FSM Archives Scans "The Archives"
● Daily Cal Scans New!
● The End of the FSM
● Bancroft Library Transcriptions
● ROHO Oral Histories Lisa Rubens
● Interviews Marston Schultz
● Faculty Hub

What Happened Before the FSM
● Prior Student Movements
● What led to the FSM?
● SLATE Archives website
● SLATE and Due Process
● Civil Rights Movement

What Happened After the FSM
● What followed from the FSM
● The Trials
● Graduate Coordinating Committee (brief history)
● Obscenity aka "Filthy Speech Movement" & Spider
● Free Student Union
● Free University Berkeley
● FSM Arrestees denied CA Teaching Credentials, appeal, prevail
● Vietnam Day Committee (1965-66)
● Vietnam Commencement (May, 1968)
● Education Reform


● Finding Aid: use this format in Google:
search term site:FSM-A.org

FSM Participants
●  The Arrestees List
●  In Memoriam
●  Participant organizations
●  Participant Studies
●  ROHO Oral Histories
●  Women in the FSM
●  Participant Accounts
●  Person Pages
●  Mario Savio
●  Missing

FSM Archives, the Organization
●  The Nonprofit
● The Collection
●  Donations
●  Newsletter
●  Recent Activities
●  Board Resolutions

Commemorations
●  1984
●  1994
●  2004
●  2014 Hub
●  Visit Berkeley

FSM Additional Topics
●  Free Speech Day in California
●  Steve Silberstein Gift
●  Savio Steps
●  Mario Savio Speakers' Corner
● 1991 Mark Brest van Kempe Monument
● "Berkeley Big People" Statue
● Teaching about the FSM / Robt. Cohen
● FSM Websites

UCB FSM50 Resources
● UCB FSM Portal
● UCB Summer Reading
● Mario Savio Memorial Lecture
● Bancroft Library Transcriptions
● Poster Contest
● On The Same Page Freedom's Orator
● Pacific Film Archive FSM series
● Berkeley Student COOP
● Art, Tech, & Activism on the FSM 50th
● UC Berkeley History Soc Sci Project
● UC Press
● Fifty Years of Free Speech
● Academic Senate FSM Panel Dec. 8

The Free Speech Movement Archives has been cited in The Infography as one of the most excellent sources of information available for learning about "Social Movements of the 1960s."

 

 

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