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The Free Speech Movement Digital Archive Project celebrates the formal
opening of its online collection with a symposium: "Taking Part: FSM and the Legacy of Social Protest, on April 13 & 14, 2001 on the UC Berkeley campus.
The symposium will open with a panel featuring civil rights organizer and former secretary of SNCC, Robert Moses joined by FSM leaders Bettina Aptheker, Jack Weinberg and Steve Weissman. Beginning at 9 a.m., on Saturday, three panels of outstanding scholars and activists will explore student protest in the 1960's. The Symposium ends with a discussion (4-5:30 p.m.) of the contested field of free speech today with special guests Nadine Strossen, head of the National ACLU, and Richard Delgado, Colorado Professor of Law and author of When Equality Ends: Stories of Race and Resistance. Margaret Russell, head of the Northern California ACLU, will chair the discussion.
For reservations or a brochure email to: estephen@library.berkeley.edu
or phone: (510) 642-3782.
To view the program online: www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/FSM
We are conducting oral histories, especially to indentify participants other than leaders, to explore the role of a variety of political organizations, and to uncover issues that were hidden in contemporary accounts.
If you have suggestions for the Oral History segment, contact Lisa Rubens: lrubens@library.berkeley.edu
[We are still looking for more people who were in the Republican Party or considered themselve right wing.]
We are still collecting archival material --including organizing materials, personal memoirs, letters with observations on the FSM.
If you have materials appropriate for the Archive, contact Elizabeth Stephen: estephen@library.berkeley.edu
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