Freedom's orator [electronic resource] : Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s / Robert Cohen.

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"Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Robert, 1955 May 21-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Savio, Mario.
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.) > History.
University of California, Berkeley > Students > Biography.
Political activists > California > Biography.
Student movements > California > Berkeley > History.
College students > Political activity > California > Berkeley > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2009 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2009 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2009 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Part I: The Education of an American Radical
  • 1. Child of War
  • 2. The Making of a Civil Rights Activist
  • 3. Freedom Summer
  • Part II: Avatar of Student Protest: Leading the Free Speech Movement
  • 4. From Polite Protest to the First Sit-In
  • 5. The Police Car Blockade
  • 6. Organizing and Negotiating
  • 7. "We Almost Lost": The FSM in Crisis
  • 8. Speaking Out and Sitting In
  • 9. "Free Speech at Last"
  • Part III: After the Revolution: A Voice Lost and Found
  • 10. Descending from Leadership
  • 11. Battling Back
  • 12. Dying in the Saddle
  • Appendix: Speeches.