{"id":1221,"date":"2017-10-16T01:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2017-10-16T01:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T08:13:16","slug":"week-2-photographs-of-the-1984-free-speech-movement-memorial-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/16\/week-2-photographs-of-the-1984-free-speech-movement-memorial-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: Photographs of the 1984 Free Speech Movement Memorial Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
Mario Savio Speaking at FSM Rally, Oct. 2, 1984 by Delany, Ron<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the mid-1960s, a massive student protest lasted throughout the entire academic year at the University of California, Berkeley\u2013\u2013now known as the Free Speech Movement (FSM). It was informally led by g<\/span>raduate student Mario Savio<\/a>, who appears in the photos from the <\/span>Photographs of the 1984 Free Speech Movement Memorial Rally, 1984<\/a> collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

The students who joined the Free Speech Movement fought for the Berkeley administration to lift the ban on on-campus political activities and thus acknowledge the right for students to exercise free speech and academic freedom. After much protesting, the university officials slowly surrendered. By January 3, 1965, the new chancellor, <\/span>Martin Meyerson<\/a>, initiated provisional rules for political activity on the UC Berkeley campus. For instance, the Sproul Hall steps became the designated area for open discussion\u2013\u2013for the entire student political spectrum\u2013\u2013during specific hours of the day. The Free Speech Movement was such a pivotal moment for the civil liberties movement in the 1960s, and even paved the way for future protests including the ones against the Vietnam War. Overall, it sparked the student activist spirit that still exists on the Berkeley campus today.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
Mario Savio Speaking at FSM Rally, Oct. 2, 1984 by [Ailes, Ben?]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>The materials in this collection can highlight the rich history of both UC Berkeley and students\u2019 rights movements. College students especially can gain insight and find inspiration in their own potential to revolutionize politics for the current generation. Sadly, the collection contains only 3 photographs of Mario Savio speaking during the 1984 Free Speech Movement Memorial Rally at the University of California, Berkeley. There remains so much opportunity for more narratives from the students who partook in the Free Speech Movement. If a researcher based a narrative entirely on the records in this collection, they would only learn of the aftermath of the Movement, nearly 20 years after its birth.<\/span><\/p>\n
\"\"
Mario Savio Speaking at FSM Rally, Oct. 2, 1984 by Delany, Ron<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In order to address these gaps, there needs to be more sources on the background and history of the Free Speech Movement, as well as how Savio rose to become the central leader for thousands of students. The Movement was the \u201cfirst mass civil disobedience in college campus of the United States during the 1960s,\u201d which is a significant occurrence and one worthy of having a more abundant collection. On the Wikipedia page for the Free Speech Movement<\/a>, there are a few valuable primary sources: a photograph of an article about the Memorial Rally and another of Mario Savio leading a rally on the Berkeley campus in 1966. The collection currently focuses on the Memorial Rally in 1984, but the Free Speech Movement deserves a larger, more noteworthy collection. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the mid-1960s, a massive student protest lasted throughout the entire academic year at the University of California, Berkeley\u2013\u2013now known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}