ASA 002 A01
Week 7
In "Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Paving the Way for Campus Activism," Robby Cohen writes about the experience college students of color had fighting against campus administration in Berkeley for their free speech and advocacy - a human right written in our Constitution. Free speech is a human right - one which should not be kept from anybody, in the 1960s, however, it was kept from minorities. Student activism became a huge thing on campus across the nation, Berkeley students fought for a long time against administration so they could back off and give the students what they deserved. The Free Speech Movement brought to light the vocalization of social problems in Berkeley and caused it to grow as a university known to be a front-runner in student activism. UC Berkeley brought the standard up on matters similar to this and many schools and universities followed in their footsteps. However harsh and tragic the students of color had it back when they could not speak or write about what they wanted to say, I believe that the steps they had to take and fights they had to go through were necessary to make society greater. What they did is start an age of social reform, the rules and laws people wrote back in the day were not comprehensive enough and when that happens we the people have to say something and do our best to get what we want.
Why is it so hard to reach government officials and politicians when the citizens want something? Do they work for the people or only for themselves?
References:
Cohen, R. (1985). Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Paving the Way for Campus Activism. OAH Magazine of History. Retrieved November 05, 2017.
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