Free Speech Movement In University
The Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley was the first campus student movement to make headlines all over the world. It lasted a little over two months, and ended 773 students being arrested for occupying the administration building, the removal of the people in charge of the campus, and a huge enlargement of student rights to use the University campus for political activity and debate. In the longer term it contributed to the election of Ronald Reagan as Governor of California in 1966. It was also the cause of the University President Clark Kerr to be fired(Free Speech Movement). The Free Speech Movement began when students were banned from political activity at the University's campus. During the protests students
were stopped from distributing flyers that informed people about the troubles of the day. So to help spread the word and teach people, the students set up “information tables”. These information tables provided the truth of what was going on and its main goal was to get people on the student activism side. This movement defined a generation of student activism across the country and would not be forgotten.
were stopped from distributing flyers that informed people about the troubles of the day. So to help spread the word and teach people, the students set up “information tables”. These information tables provided the truth of what was going on and its main goal was to get people on the student activism side. This movement defined a generation of student activism across the country and would not be forgotten.