Mario Savio’s Second Act: The 1990s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Permissions and Credits xi
5. Preface xiii
6. List of Abbreviations xix
7. The Many Meanings of the FSM: In Lieu of an Introduction 1
8. Part One. Roots
9. Thirty Years Later: Reflections on the FSM 57
10. From Freedom Now! to Free Speech: The FSM’s Roots in the Bay Area Civil Rights Movement 73
11. Holding One Another: Mario Savio and the Freedom Struggle in Mississippi and Berkeley 83
12. Part II. Experience: Fall 1964
13. Students
14. War Is Declared! 105
15. My Life in the FSM: Memories of a Freshman 111
16. Gender Politics and the FSM: A Meditation on Women and Freedom of Speech 129
17. Recollections of the FSM 140
18. A View from the South: The Idea of a State University 157
19. Endgame: How the Berkeley Grads Organized to Win 170
20. A View from the Margins 178
21. Dressing for the Revolution 185
22. The “Rossman Report”: A Memoir of Making History 189
23. The FSM and the Vision of a New Left 215
24. This Was Their Fight and They Had to Fight It: The FSM’s Nonradical Rank and File 227
25. Faculty and Clergy
26. On the Side of the Angels: The Berkeley Faculty and the FSM 264
27. From the Big Apple to Berkeley: Perspectives of a Junior Faculty Member 339
28. When the FSM Disturbed the Faculty Peace 345
29. The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Campus Ministry 357
30. Administration
31. Fall of 1964 at Berkeley: Confrontation Yields to Reconciliation 362
32. Part III. Legal and Constitutional Issues
33. Constitutionally Interpreting the FSM Controversy 401
34. December 1964: Some Reflections and Recollections 422
35. The FSM: A Movement Lawyer’s Perspective 433
36. Part IV. Aftermath
37. Mario Savio and Berkeley’s “Little Free Speech Movement” of 1966 449
38. The Limits of Freedom: Student Activists and Educational Reform at Berkeley in the 1960s 485
39. The FSM, Berkeley Politics, and Ronald Reagan 511
40. Mario Savio’s Second Act: The 1990s 519
41. Part V. Thoughts about Mario Savio
42. Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity 533
43. Remembering Mario 552
44. Mario, Personal and Political 557
45. Elegy for Mario Savio 563
46. On Mario Savio 566
47. Mario Savio: Avatar of Free Speech 569
48. Selected Bibliography 571
49. List of Contributors 575
50. Index 581