In 1964, student activists
returned to college from a summer of civil rights protests in the American South, to come
into conflict with administration officials at the University
of California, Berkeley over their right to use University facilities for their
campaigns.
The resulting confrontation marked the beginning of a new wave of student protests as
civil rights took a back seat to the antiwar movement. The first drama peaked in December,
1964 when over 800 students were arrested for occupying the UC Administration Building,
the largest mass arrest of students in U.S. history up to that time.
Berkeley photo gallery, 1964-1965
More photos from the Free Speech Movement and the Berkeley campus--Phil Ochs, Joan Baez,
and more.
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