USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1964, Mario Savio and 500 fellow students marched on Berkeley’s administration building to protest the university’s order. He and other leaders called for an organized student protest to abolish all restrictions on students’ free-speech rights throughout the University of California system.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a college campus phenomenon inspired first by the struggle for civil rights and later fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War. The Free Speech Movement began in 1964, when students at the University of California, Berkeley protested a ban on on-campus political activities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students’ right to free speech and academic freedom. The Free Speech Movement was influenced by the New Left, and was also related to the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first of these sorts of protests, that of 1964, is now known as the “Free Speech Movement.” University of California President Clark Kerr long insisted that the University wouldn’t interfere with student’s lives off campus, but, by the same token, that students must keep their political activities off campus.

Detailed explanation-5: -On Oct. 1, 1964, the Free Speech Movement was launched at UC–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) information table in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.