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Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:35 PM Oct 2014

PBS Newshour: Hearing echoes of Berkeley in student activism today

Published on Oct 16, 2014
In 1964, the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, became the first large-scale campus student movement in the country. The demonstrations set the stage for the anti-Vietnam War movement, the campaign for women’s equality and others. Special correspondent Spencer Michaels looks at the evolution of student protest at Berkeley and beyond.


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