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How Freedom Summer activists brought the Free Speech Movement to Berkeley

Source: UC Berkeley News

When UC Berkeley tried to silence students advocating for civil rights and against the Vietnam War, young activists refused to back down. One of them, Mario Savio, delivered a fiery speech that lit a spark across the nation.
This entry was posted in Hard-Won Liberty, The Struggle for Freedom, Voices of Protest and tagged Culture & Society, History on May 1, 2025 by Tishawna Tate.

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