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Web Site Review

Free Speech Movement Archives <http://www.fsm-a.org>. Created and maintained by the Free Speech Movement Archives (FSM-A), Berkeley, Calif. Reviewed April 15–19, 2002.

Free Speech Movement Digital Archive <http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM>. Created and maintained by the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Reviewed April 15–19, 2002.

The free speech movement (FSM) at the University of California, Berkeley, in the fall of 1964 was a landmark of 1960s America. To a student of that era the FSM offers both protracted drama—with mass participation at numerous points and nearly eight hundred arrests in a single sit-in—and a conceptual bridge from the early-sixties civil rights movement to the late-sixties student revolt. Ideally, a Web site on the free speech movement can provide a fascinating window into a tumultuous period of U.S. history. Neither of the Web sites under review offers such a window, though each has its virtues. 1

The two sites' similar names conceal very different (though not incompatible) purposes. The founders of the Free Speech Movement Archives (FSM-A) see their Web site as part of a still-living history of the FSM, embodied in the recollections and the ongoing lives of its participants. The site is a natural outgrowth of the twenty- and thirty-year reunions that many FSM veterans attended in 1984 and 1994. . . .

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