At Berkeley in the Sixties by Jo Freeman

Today, as celebrations mark the fourtieth anniversary of the Free Speech Movement (FSM), scholars and participants continue to debate and contest its meaning. On October 1, 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley, sequestered the police car sent to remove civil rights activist Jack Weinberg, who was arrested for defying restrictions on political expression on campus. Reviewed by Judith Ezekiel (Equipe Simone-SAGESSE, Universite de Toulouse-le-Mirail) At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965.īloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. from New York University School of Law.Jo Freeman.

in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a J.D. She has also edited Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies (1983), and (with Victoria Johnson) Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties. Jo's other books include: The Politics of Women's Liberation (1975), winner of a 1975 prize from the American Political Science Association for the Best Scholarly Book on Women and Politics five editions of Women: A Feminist Perspective (ed.). For more information about the book visit: The History Book Club, a division of the Book-of-the-Month Club, selected At Berkeley in the Sixties for one of its paperback book features. This prize is given by the POP section of the APSA to a book that makes an 'outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.' Press 2004) and before that, A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) was reviewed by Emily Mitchell, a former Senior Women Web Culture Watch critic.Ī Room at a Time has been awarded the Leon Epstein prize. The previous book is At Berkeley in the Sixties: Education of an Activist (Indiana U. Jo's newest book, We Will Be Heard: Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States, has been published by Rowman and Littlefield. Her experiences in the Bay Area civil rights movement are recounted in the book At Berkeley in the Sixties. Jo Freeman is a political scientist and attorney. She is currently writing a book on her experiences in the Southern civil rights movement.

At Berkeley in the Sixties by Jo Freeman