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Berkeley Protest

Berkeley, CA December 3, 1964: Twenty-one year old Mario Savio addresses a crowd of students in Sproul Hall at the University of California. Savio,who is the leader of a huge demonstration on campus is protesting the university's disciplinary actions being taken against four student free-speech leaders. In this photo he was giving instructions to students on passive resistance as Sproul Hall was locked up last night when students took over the building. Mario Savio, a Manhattan-born philosophy major, is one of the four against whom disciplinary action is being taken by university officials.

 

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Uploaded on February 20, 2015