An edition of Freedom's orator: Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s (2009)

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An edition of Freedom's orator: Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s (2009)

Freedom's orator

Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s

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This volume is a biography of American political activist Mario Salvo (1942-1996). Salvo is considered an icon of the earliest phase of the 1960s counterculture movement and was a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is famous for his passionate speeches, especially the "put your bodies upon the gears" address given UC Berkeley in late 1964. Savio also risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and was a leader in bringing daring forms of non-violent protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for free speech and academic freedom on American campuses. The author illuminates Salvo's egalitarian leadership style, his notable eloquence, and the many ways he embodied the youthful idealism of the 1960s. The book also describes Salvo's second phase of activism against "Reaganite Imperialism" in Central America and the corporatization of higher education and includes numerous selections of Salvo's speeches.

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
512

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Subjects

History, Berkeley University of California, Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), Biography, Political activity, College students, Student movements, Political activists, Students, Students History, College students, political activity, University of california, berkeley

People

Mario Savio

Places

California, Berkeley
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Freedom's orator: Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
378.1/9810979467, B
Library of Congress
LD760 .C64 2009, LD760.C64 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
512

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23174469M
Internet Archive
freedomsoratorma0000cohe
ISBN 13
9780195182934
LCCN
2009005312
OCLC/WorldCat
255902045
LibraryThing
8907534
Goodreads
6794746

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Work ID
OL4295189W

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