![]() Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts. minority of Berkeley's 25,000 students had already become engaged in political activity through the civil rights movement, and also in organizing opposition to Sen. Thus, as veteran socialist and Free Speech Movement participant Joel Geier explained in an interview for : In July 1964, students also protested the Republican National Convention on the outskirts of San Francisco. ![]() Between late 1963 and early 1964, dozens of students were among the hundreds arrested in protests against racist discrimination at businesses in the Bay Area. Students at the UC campus were involved in civil rights organizing and community struggles, such as against discriminatory hiring practices. It was a campaign led by radicals and revolutionaries who were determined to defeat segregation on the way to a more just and equal society.ĭespite its liberal image, Berkeley in the 1960s was characterized by Jim Crow racism. ![]() NOW OFFICIALLY celebrated by the institution it fought against, the Free Speech Movement that shook the University of California (UC) Berkeley in 1964 wasn't about an abstract principle. ![]()
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