Abstract
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at UC Berkeley launched a student revolt which would
‘spread from campus to campus around the world, jumping like electrical sparks from
terminal to terminal’ (Harman, 1988:39). This paper excavates a small piece of the hidden
intellectual history of the FSM. The Mind of Clark Kerr, a short political pamphlet written by
Hal Draper to ‘generalise the issues for the embattled students’, was dubbed ‘the Bible of the
Free Speech Movement’ yet its importance is invariably missed in accounts of the FSM. In
this paper I examine the immediate political context and influence of the pamphlet which
presented a critique of the multiversity and of its theoretician, the UC president Clark Kerr
and trace the intellectual roots of Draper’s critique to his development of the theory of
bureaucratic collectivism
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2000 |
| Event | 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences - Oslo, Norway Duration: 6 Aug 2000 → 13 Aug 2000 |
Conference
| Conference | 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences |
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| Country/Territory | Norway |
| City | Oslo |
| Period | 6/08/00 → 13/08/00 |