Posts Tagged ‘Mario Savio’
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The first biography of activist Mario Savio proposes that Savio became the voice and symbol of the Free Speech Movement 45 years ago this October 1 when, at age 21, he climbed on top of a police car—in socks in order to prevent marring the vehicle—to protest the arrest of a demonstrator on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
NYU (US)—Mario Savio’s three-decade life as an activist ended in much the way it began, aggravating a university administration in his advocacy of free speech, according to the first biography of the civil rights leader, authored by historian Robert Cohen. Continue…
