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Title: At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965 by Jo Freeman ISBN: 0-253-21622-2 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: a multifaceted memoir of the 1960s
Comment: Jo Freeman has authored a multifaceted memoir of her years as an undergraduate campus activist at Berkeley. She entered Cal in the fall of 1961 as a 16 year-old from the San Fernando Valley and graduated in the spring of 1965 after the Free Speech Movement had shaken the Berkeley Administration and energized not only activists but seemingly an entire campus. It is part the story of a teenager growing up quickly, making dumb mistakes and surmounting them. It is part a story of civil rights activism, including the truly difficult decision of whether civil disobedience is justifiable when the conduct one is challenging is not illegal. (Freeman was arrested and tried three times, being convicted twice, and causing a split with her mother.) More importantly this is an insider's acccount of the Free Speech Movement, its politics and personalities. Freeman also strives to take account of the FSM's opponents: the Berkeley Administration, the Regents, the press, and, of course, politicians. It is no easy task to weave so many stories together in a coherent whole, and Freeman has done a fine job of bringing her knowledge as an adult to bear on her actions forty years ago. This is a terrific look at the optimism of the 1960s before Vietnam, summer riots, and drugs intervened to scar the decade.

Rating: 5
Summary: At Berkeley in the Sixties is a Winner!
Comment: At Berkeley in the Sixties captures the essence of the FSM. I was a graduate student in Forestry at Berkeley from 1962 to 1965. I was not an activist but I followed many of the activities of the FSM. For me the most dramatic event was Mario Savio, an activist leader, being dragged off the stage by police at the Greek Theater in front of thousands of disbelieving students and faculty. It was high drama at its best. Jo Freeman does a masterful job of detailing the struggle between the students and the establishment. The book is a great read.

Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough, fair and accurate
Comment: It is the most through and, to my mind,
>most fair-minded treatment of those events and their
>meaning. I speak as a graduate student in English at Berkeley from
>1961 to 1968 (with one year away teaching in the
>South) and I received my degree to become a professor at
>Stanford. The scholarship and intrepid
>note-keeping that Ms. Freeman kept over the years have made those times in the
>'sixties come vividly alive to me. It is not true that if you can remember the 'sixties, you were not there. She was there, recalls it all, and is both fair and accurate.

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