Free Speech Movement In The Us
Analyse the ideals and goals of the free speech movement in Berkeley.
The first official protest was held in May 1960 in the San Francisco Hall. The protest was held whilst a meeting for the House of Un-American Committee (HUAC) was taking place. It was a stand against US oppression of political freedom, and with the work of HUAC hitting close to him – a Berkeley student had been subpoenaed, the students were ready to make their opposition heard.
It is important not to take the activities of the early 1960's as independent from the years preceding it. In another time and another context, the activities of HUAC may not have been met with the same opposition. However following the wave of the civil rights movements in the mid 1950's and more importantly the era of McCarthyism, there existed a very real and strong resistance to anything that resembled what was seen as the "witch trials" of the fifties.
Interestingly, it was not the protest itself that sparked......
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