2024-2025 Class of Fellows
The Free Speech Movement @60: Reflections on Campus Free Speech 1964/2024
ABOUT THE RESEARCH
Marking the 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement (FSM), this project will explore the history of that movement, its legacy, and the state of campus free speech since 1964. This will involve public forums, teacher workshops, development of college orientation materials and publications, which feature historians, FSM veterans, legal scholars, students and campus administrators.
About the Fellow
Robert Cohen
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Professor of Social Studies Education, New York University
EXPLORE THE RESOURCES
- The Free Speech Movement at Sixty and Today’s Unfree Universities — Academe Magazine
- Land of the Free (not so much), Home of the Brave? Free Speech, Student Movements, and Repression in the US
- A Way to Honor the Teach-in Movement at 60 — Inside Higher Ed
- A Historical View of Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade — Inside Higher Ed
- Today’s protests are tamer than the campus unrest of the 1960s. So why the harsh response? — Los Angeles Times
- Free Speech Movement Teacher Workshop — Zinn Education Project
- Free Speech Movement Lesson (2024): Lesson, Student Facing Materials, Slides
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