FSM-A Scanned Documents . . . Photos . . . Video . . . Audio

This page will also serve as a finding aid to the Bancroft Library's FSM pages.

1998 Gift of Stephen M. Silberstein to UC Berkeley

1. The Mario Savio/Free Speech Movement Endowment which supplements state appropriations for the University Library's collection budget in the Humanities.
2.  The Free Speech Movement Cafe, located in Moffitt Undergraduate Library, provides a public space for open discourse and displays about social and political issues.
3.  The Free Speech Movement Digital Archive and Oral History Project at the Bancroft Library.

Michael Rossman curated the FSM Collection and chose which documents to transcribe under the grant.

Bancroft Main FSM Portal

Bancroft's many collections holding FSM materials

Bibliography (Lunsford)

Oral Histories

FSM Audio1

FSM Audio 2

UC Calisphere photos

FSM video

FSM Press Releases transcribed

History of Cal Berkeley in the 60s with a few handbill scans

FSM Documents transcribed

Date	Author	Title
9/17/1964	proto-FSM	Petition given to Dean (wording as below)
10/2/1964	FSM	Statement Issued by Student Organizations
10/4/1965	FSM	Confused Poop Sheet for Research on Repression in Berkeley
10/13/1964	FSM	Important F.S.M. Bulletin
10/14/1964	ASUC	Rationale for On-Campus Student Political Action
10/17/1964	FSM	Peter Franck Interview by FSM 1/16/2017: NYU Prof. Robert Cohen notes that “1932 was not the start date of all this. It was the west coast red scare of 1934, sparked by the waterfront strike, the SF General Strike, and Upton Sinclair's socialistic campaign for Cal's governorship that led to the new restrictions on outside speakers at Berkeley and at UCLA.”
10/28/1964	Michael Rossman & Lynne Hollander	Administrative Pressures & Student Political Activity aka Rossman-Hollander Report--with Apppendices!
11/3/1964	FSM	F S M Bulletin
11/9/1964	FSM	Why the Committee Deadlocked
11/9/1964	FSM	Provisional Platform of the Free Speech Movement
11/11/1964	FSM	Some Comments on the Faculty Proposal
11/19/1964	FSM	Here We Stand
11/21/1964	FSM	The Position of the Free Speech Movement on Speech and Political Activity
11/24/1964	FSM	Why Are UC Students Still Not Satisfied?
11/30/1964	FSM	The Administration has initiated new disciplinary
12/13/1964	FSM	FSM Action
1965	FSM Legal	Summary of the Sproul Hall Sit In and Arrests (confidential)
12/22/1964	FSM Legal/Chief A. H. Fording	Berkeley Police Department Involvement in Student Disturbances
10/2-12/7	Speeches	Online Audio Recordings - Transcripts
1/4/1965	FSM/Paul Goodman, Brad Cleaveland, Neal Blumenfeld, et al	We Want a University
1/24/1965	Neal Blumenfeld	Human Dignity and the Multiversity
July, 1965	FSM/Sam Slatkin?	Revolution at Berkeley
	The Defender

FSM Executive Committee

11/23/1964	FSM Executive Committee Meeting	Minutes
10/20/1964	Michael Eisen	Resignation

 

Pamphlets

October 5, 1961	US House Comm on Un-American Activities	The Truth About the Film Operation Abolition
1966	Bettina Aptheker	Big Business and the American University
1965	Bettina Aptheker	FSM: The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley
1965	Bettina Aptheker	The FSM: An Historical Narrative
October, 1964	Hal Draper	The Mind of Clark Kerr
December, 1964	Free Speech Movement, Steering Committee	We Want a University
1965, 1967	Marvin Garson	The Regents
March, 1965	Walter Herbert	O Freedom!
March, 1965	Roland Liebert	The Berkeley Case: Issues in Student Academic Freedom, a Brief Critique
July, 1965	Mario Savio, et al	The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution
1965	Jack Weinberg	The Free Speech Movement and Civil Rights
Spring, 1965	Bruce Provin, ed.	Graduate Student Journal
1965	Ken Sanderson	Multiversity Lost: A Travesty

Legal Documents

January, 1965	Certain Faculty Members	Municipal Court: A Suggestion for Dismissal	90 pp	text
1/26/1965		Motion for Pretrial Hearings and for Consolidation for Purposes of Pretrial Hearings		text
1966	Malcolm Burnstein, et al.	Appellants' Opening Brief		text
April 1, 1965		The People of the State of California, Plaintiff, vs Savio Nos. C-7468 through C-7547		text

Misc. Documents

11/25/1964	Clark Kerr & E.W.Strong	Mario Robert Savio: By this letter, I am initiating student disciplinary proceedings		text
11/30/1964	E.W. Strong	Statement by Chancellor E.W. Strong		text
Dec. 7-10, 1964	Bob Weinzeimer, Ed and Pub	The Gate, Independent Newspaper, Vol. 2, No. 10		text
11/22/1964	Clark Kerr	Statement by President Clark Kerr		text

Reports and Studies

December 13, 1964	A Fact-Finding Committee of Graduate Political Scientists	The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy (Preliminary Report)
May 7, 1965	Jerome C. Byrne	The Berkeley Crisis, Report to the Forbes Comm of Board of Regents
June, 1965	Thomas J. Cunningham	Legal Aspects of Campus Unrest
December, 1965	Terry F. Lunsford	The "Free Speech" Crisis at Berkeley, 1964-1965: Some Issues for Social and Legal Research
1964	ASUC	Minority Viewpoint of the Special ASUC Sub-committee on Student Political Activity
Oct. 15, 1964	Ira M. Heyman et al	Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Conduct (Heyman Report)
April 23, 1965	Theodore R. Meyer, Chairman	Report of the Special Committee to Review University Policies (Meyer Report)
1964	Michael Rossman and Lynne Hollander	Administrative Pressures and Political Activity at the University of California: A Preliminary Report
1/2/1965	Prof. Albert Lepawsky	Intellectual Responsibility and Political Conduct
12/14/1964	Faculty Members UCB	A Message on the Proposed Solution to the Free Speech Controversy
12/10/1964 circa	Charles Sellers, Prof of History, Berkeley	The Berkeley Faculty, and Student Political Activity
	Henry Nash Smith, Prof. of English	Why Has the Berkeley Faculty Failed to Condemn Violations of the Law by Students
9/10/1965	E.W. Strong	What's Ahead for the University?
1964, November prob	Earl F. Cheit, et al	Report of the Faculty Group

 

10/24/1964	Committee on Campus Political Activity	Minutes
10/28/1964	Committee on Campus Political Activity
11/4/1964	Committee on Campus Political Activity	Minutes
11/5/1964	Committee on Campus Political Activity	Minutes
11/7/1964	Committee on Campus Political Activity	Minutes

Faculty Academic Senate Minutes

October 13 and 15, 1964	Minutes of the Berkeley Division
November 24, 1964	Minutes of the Berkeley Division
December 8,1964	Resolutions
December 8, 1964	Debate Transcription
December 10, 1964	Minutes of the Berkeley Division
	Minutes of the Berkeley Division
	Minutes of the Berkeley Division
	Minutes of the Berkeley Division

 

Books & Magazines

1993	David Lance Goines	THE FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT: COMING OF AGE IN THE 1960s
1968, 1970	Max Heirich	The Beginning: Berkeley, 1964
1995	Leon Wofsy	Looking for the Future
2/1/1965		CALIFORNIA MONTHLY Vol. LXXV, No. 5 February 1965
3/15/1965		Spider Magazine, Vol. I, No. II
5/24/1965		Spider Magazine, Vol. I, No. V

 

Daily Cal during the FSM - transcriptions

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
			9/16/1964	9/17/1964	9/18/1964	9/19/1964
9/20/1964	9/21/1964	9/22/1964	9/23/1964	9/24/1964	9/25/1964	9/26/1964
9/27/1964	9/28/1964	9/29/1964	9/30/1964	10/1/1964	10/2/1964	10/3/1964
10/4/1964	10/5/1964	10/6/1964	10/7/1964	10/8/1964	10/9/1964	10/10/1964
10/11/1964	10/12/1964	10/13/1964	10/14/1964	10/15/1964	10/16/1964	10/17/1964
10/18/1964	10/19/1964	10/20/1964	10/21/1964	10/22/1964	10/23/1964	10/24/1964
10/25/1964	10/26/1964	10/27/1964	10/28/1964	10/29/1964	10/30/1964	10/31/1964
11/1/1964	11/2/1964	11/3/1964	11/4/1964	11/5/1964	11/6/1964	11/7/1964
11/8/1964	11/9/1964	11/10/1964	11/11/1964	11/12/1964	11/13/1964	11/14/1964
11/15/1964	11/16/1964	11/17/1964	11/18/1964	11/19/1964	11/20/1964	11/21/1964
11/22/1964	11/23/1964	11/24/1964	11/25/1964	11/26/1964	11/27/1964	11/28/1964
11/29/1964	11/30/1964	12/1/1964	12/2/1964	12/3/1964	12/4/1964	12/5/1964
12/6/1964	12/7/1964	12/8/1964	12/9/1964	12/10/1964	12/11/1964	12/12/1964
12/13/1964	12/14/1964	12/15/1964	12/16/1964	12/17/1964	12/18/1964	12/19/1964
		1/5/1965	1/6/1965	1/7/1965	1/8/1965	1/9/1965

 

Defendant's Letters transcribed by the University of California Bancroft Library (grouped by last initial of writer)

A	B	C	D	E	F
G	H	I-J	K	L	M
N-P	R	SA-SH	SI-SU	T-V	W-Z

x

4/18/1965	The Defender: Free Speech Trial Newsletter
4/25/1965	The Defender: Free Speech Trial Newsletter
4/30/1965	The Defender: Free Speech Trial Newsletter
5/9/1965	The Defender: Free Speech Trial Newsletter
5/16/1965	The Defender: Free Speech Trial Newsletter
5/23/1965	The Defender: Free Speech Trial Newsletter
5/30/1965	The Defender: Free Speech Trial Newsletter

 

FSM Newsletters, edited by Barbara Garson, as pdfs (left) and transcribed text::

I October 9, 1964	text
II October 20, 1964	text
III November 2, 1964	text
IV November 17, 1964	text
V December 10, 1964	text

 

ASUC Senate Minutes

9/22/1964
9/29/1964
10/6/1964
10/13/1964
11/10/1964
11/17/1964
12/8/1964
Minority Viewpoint of the Special ASUC Sub-committee on Student Political Activity
Student Welfare and Activities Committee Motion "A Rationale for On-campus Student Political Action"

CORE

September, 1964	The Campus CORE-lator		text
January, 1965	The Campus CORE-lator		text

 

SLATE

	SLATE NEWSLETTER			text
March 10, 1963	SLATE Newsletter, Vol III, No. 1			text
July 28-30, 1961	SLATE Summer Conference			text
	About SLATE			text
2017, 2018	SLATE Oral History Project			text

 

 

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