For Menand, Berkeley’s free speech struggle of fall 1964 was a battle between men, primarily between UC’s establishment liberal president Clark Kerr and the Free Speech Movement’s famed radical orator Mario Savio. Photo Steven Marcus, Steven Marcus Free Speech Movement Photographs, Bancroft Library, University of California.Īlthough Louis Menand’s recent New Yorker article “The Making of the New Left” (March 22, 2021) offered perceptive observations concerning some aspects of the student movement of the early 1960s, its treatment of the Free Speech Movement – the first mass protest movement to use mass civil disobedience on campus in the 1960s – rendered women student activists virtually invisible. As events unfold, the campus conflicts of the Sixties take on a completely different cast, one that may surprise many readers.Suzanne Goldberg, wearing FSM armband, speaks on the Berkeley campus, November 9, 1964. It draws heavily on documents created at the time-letters, reports, interviews, memos, newspaper stories, FBI files-but is fleshed out with retrospective analysis. The story is told with the ""you are there"" immediacy of Freeman the undergraduate but is put into historical and political context by Freeman the scholar, 35 years later. As a young undergraduate, Jo Freeman was a key participant in the growth of social activism at the University of California, Berkeley. This book is a memoir and a history of Berkeley in the early Sixties. It draws heavily on documents created at the time-letters, reports, interviews, memos, newspaper stories, FBI files-but is fleshed out with.
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