Join us for an interview by Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian with activist scholars Bettina Aptheker, author of Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel and Robert Cohen, author of The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings that Changed America. The workshop is co-sponsored by the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
Aptheker will describe her own involvement with the Free Speech Movement (FSM) and Cohen will trace the roots of the FSM back to the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi. Both will address the legacy of the Free Speech Movement and the current free speech crisis on campuses and other public institutions. We will share teaching ideas and there will be breakout group discussions about addressing the FSM in the classroom.
The first 100 teacher attendees to register and attend will receive a free copy of one of the books listed above. Professional development credit certificate provided.
Bettina F. Aptheker is professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introduction to feminist studies courses for twenty-four years. Her books include Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became A Feminist Rebel, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Life.
Robert Cohen is professor of History and Social Studies in New York University School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is an affiliated member of NYU’s History Department and a senior fellow at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. His books include Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s, The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (coedited with Reginald E. Zelnik), Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s (coedited with David S. Snyder), and Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism, Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond (cowritten with Sonia E. Murrow), and more.
Jesse Hagopian teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools, the co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, author of Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, and campaign director for the Zinn Education Project.
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