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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 1. Oktober 1964 / Time Line October 1, 1964
Version 3.5September 1964, 2. Oktober 1964
10/01/1964
The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of
California – Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack
Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE
(Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the
administration building.
Hundreds of students surrounded the police car holding Weinberg for
32 hours, keeping him from being taken away. Many made speeches
from atop the car, and ultimately Weinberg’s release was
negotiated.
University Chancellor Clark Kerr had been under pressure
from the Board of Regents to ban expression of views considered
communist, but the students, inspired by the Civil Rights movement,
questioned and resisted the restrictions.
Kilde: Freeman, Jo: The Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, edited by Immanual
Ness, Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, 2004, pp. 1178-1182.
- http://www.jofreeman.com/sixtiesprotest/berkeley.htm
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