FSM Cafe Educational Program Series

Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s

Panelists:
    * Robert Cohen, Department of Education & History, New York University & author of Freedom's Orator
    * Saul Scott, Department of English, UC Berkeley
    * Lynne Hollander Savio, Chair, Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
    * Leon Litwack, Emeritus, Department of History, UC Berkeley, Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History
    * Colleen Lye, Department of English, UC Berkeley

Passages from the first full-length account of the life and activism of Mario Savio will be read and discussed by his widow, Lynne Hollander Savio, his biographer, Robert Cohen, and faculty and students from the University.  Savio's central role in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of the 1960s will be highlighted, as well as his work for civil rights and his fight against restricting access to higher education and the destruction of the public university.  Students will read excerpts from Savio's unpublished letters from Mississippi during Freedom Summer of 1964.

Co-Sponsors: Department of English, Department of History