Freedom's Orator Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of The 1960s

Name: Freedom's Orator Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of The 1960s
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ISBN: 9780195182934

ISBN-10: 0195182936

ISBN-13: 9780195182934

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert Cohen

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Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring daring forms of non-violent protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for free speech and academic freedom on American campuses. Drawing upon previously unavailable Savio papers, as well as oral histories from friends and fellow movement leaders, Freedom's Orator illuminates Mario's egalitarian leadership style, his remarkable eloquence, and the many ways he embodied the youthful…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/27/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 9.29" wide x 5.98" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Education of an American Radical



Child of War



The Making of a Civil Rights Activist



Freedom Summer



Avatar of Student Protest: Leading the Free Speech Movement



From Polite Protest to the First Sit-In



The Police Car Blockade



Consolidating the Movement and Negotiating for Free Speech



"We Almost Lost": The FSM in Crisis



Speaking Out and Sitting In



"Free Speech at Last"



After the Revolution: A Voice Lost and Found



Descending from Leadership



Battling Back



Dying in the Saddle



In His Own Words: A Selection of Mario Savio's Speeches and Writing


Valedictory


Bodies Upon the Gears


An End to History


Questioning the Vietnam War


Beyond the Cold War


Resisting Reaganism and War in Central America


The Second Generation


Building a Compassionate Community


Their Values and Ours


A Moment to Move Against Class-Ridden Barbarism


California at the Crossroads: Social Strife or Social Unity?


In Defense of Affirmative Action: The Case Against Proposition 209


Notes


Index