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BY RAYMOND BARGLOW
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA IS FAMOUS FOR ITS HISTORY of political protest. In 1949, faculty and students at that University of California campus opposed an anti-Communist loyalty oath imposed by the Board of Regents. In 1964, Berkeley was home to the Free Speech Movement and subsequently to resistance against the war in Vietnam. These political efforts were all peaceful—very deliberately so. In the early 1960s, some Berkeley activists traveled to Mississippi and other Southern states to give support to the Civil Rights Movement, and returned as advocates of Martin Luther King’s politics of nonviolence.