Turmoil on the Campuses
Berkeley in the Sixties

Volume II, Chapter 12

SUMMARY

Arguably the most tumultuous time in the history of American higher education began with the free speech movement at Berkeley in 1964. This essay shows that the University of California administrators -- notably President Clark Kerr -- at first embraced free speech at Berkeley. But then the student movement came to support educational, social, and political doctrines far more extreme than Kerr and other liberals had anticipated. The FSM merged with a cultural revolution and an antiwar movement that ultimately spread across the United States.

LINKS

• World Wide Web Sites
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• Berkeley Photo Journal: This account of a visit to Berkeley by the author in 1995 explores the question of change on the campus since the 1960s.
  Follow the journal as a sequence of entries..
  Explore the journal via a table of contents.
  Look ar the journal as two homongus documents. (slow to load -- and not yet complete 6-11-97))