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Events on Thursday 1 October 1964 1
1964Free Speech Movement begins at BerkeleyStudent protest over campus political activityStudents at the University of California, Berkeley began a campaign of protest and civil disobedience after the university banned on-campus political activity. The movement became a template for the student activism that spread across American campuses later in the decade.