Fsm-a.org
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FSM-A the Free Speech Movement Archives Home Page
Description
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even tacitly take part," said Mario Savio on December 2nd, 1964.
Thirty-four years later, thanks to a $3.5 million gift from Stephen M. Silberstein, the University of California Berkeley Library and the Bancroft Library began an ambitious program to document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement - a legacy that can still be traced in political activism and educational reform throughout the country.
As Silberstein noted during ceremonies announcing his gift in April 1998, "We owe no small debt to Mario Savio and the individuals who made up the Free Speech Movement. Despite great personal and family sacrifice, they spoke up for the ideals upon which our society is based, and in which we all believe: a more just world, civil rights, and the removal of limitations on the free discussion and advocacy of ideas. " Silberstein, who worked in the University Library for ten years before leaving to co-found Innovative Interfaces, feels strongly that his support of "one of the world's truly great libraries, is something...Mario would appreciate." Silberstein's gift funded three distinct entities at the University of California Berkeley:
Contact
- FSM Archives
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- Palo Alto CA
- United States 94303-3512
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- +1.41584310
