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Berkeley: Graduate Coordinating Committee, 1965. Poster. 14x20 inch poster; photos. of candidates, outline of platform, folding creases, else very good. The GCC grew out of the Free Speech Movement with the promise of truly representing the needs of the graduate students. Their campaign goals include fighting for rent control in Berkeley, establishing a co-operative discount bookstore, and making the Daily Californian a more "affective instrument for independent analysis and discussion.

San Francisco: Hart's Spring Works, 1986. Paperback. 433p., sticker residue on front wrapper, title page browned, fore-edges slightly toned, else in very good condition.

Stanford, CA: Graduate Coordinating Committee, 1965. Newsletter. Three issues of the newsletter, tabloid format, four pages each, evenly toned, horizontal fold else good condition. The Committee was created by Stanford supporters of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. It quickly expanded to focus on issues such as the Vietnam War.

Berkeley: Publications Commission of the University Church Council, 1965. 47p., 9x8 inches oblong, introduction, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. A collection of essays addressing the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. Introductory quote by jazz critic Ralph Gleason on the "Tragedy at the Greek Theatre" printed on the inside front cover, with Gleason's ownership stamp.

San Francisco: The Gandarva Press, 1999. Paperback. 86p., very good first edition trade paperback in original pictorial wraps. Philadelphia-born poet whose poems follow his travels through India and Africa to San Francisco where he bacame involved in the Free Speech Movement and taught at City College.

Berkeley, Free Student Union: [Free Speech Movement], 1965. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, burnt orange color; date penned on front, in very good condition. Discusses a petition to discuss the Meyer Committee report with the Regents and their interference in graduate elections.

San Francisco: OCP, 1965. Newspaper. 8p. folded tabloid, articles, opinion, reviews, news, underground newspaper; even toning, splitting at folds and heavy toning, otherwise good. Open City Press was a local forerunner of the Berkeley Barb, providing coverage of the Free Speech Movement.

Berkeley: W.E.B. Dubois Club of America, 1965. Handbill. Double-sided, 8.5x11 inch handbill; faintly toned, else in very good condition.

Berkeley, CA: Ad Hoc Committee on Student Conduct, 1964. 11p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Report issued on the case of eight students suspended for participation in the Free Speech Movement.

Berkeley, CA: FSM, 1964. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, printed both sides, mimeographed, very good. The reverse contains a statement by the Association of California State College Professors supporting the Berkeley activists. This is a dublicate from an archive collected at the time by Michael Rossman, one of the participants in the Free Speech Movement.

San Francisco, CA: Ramparts Magazine, 1966. Newspaper. 8p., folded tabloid newspaper, articles, news, opinion, events, cartoons, evenly toned, else very good condition. Interim publication by the publishers of Ramparts magazine. Articles on the San Francisco newspaper strike, Mario Savio, and more.

San Francisco, CA: Ramparts Magazine, 1967. Newspaper. Three issues of this interim publication, 8p. each, folded tabloid newspaper, articles, news, opinion, events, cartoons, some mailing labels and toning else very good on newsprint. Issues prominently covered include the 1966 SF newspaper printers' strike, Mario Savio and a second wave of protests on free speech at UC Berkeley, and a "pamphlet-length" special report on UC Berkeley president Clark Kerr's firing; articles by Julian Bond on Lester Maddow, Tom Hayden on LBJ, and Robert Scheer compares the Old and New Left.

Berkeley: Free Speech Movement Archives, 2004. Pamphlet. 32p. staplebound booklet, very good. Signed by Michael Rossman, one of the contributors, on the title page. One holding found in OCLC as of December 2023 (under misspelled name 'Simpson').

Sacramento: Senate of the State of California, 1966. Paperback. 162p., wraps with minor shelf wear, previous owner's name penned on title page, else very good condition. The resourceful individuals promptly drilled holes between stalls to prevent suspicion, finally resulting in the removal of the doors altogether (134). Also covers Kerr's analysis during the FSM, various demonstrations, the Vietnam Day Committee, the Eli Katz case, among many other topics. "The criticism of the Subcommittee's 1965 report by the President of the University of California has warranted the issuance of this supplement. In it we will respond to the major criticism and will include an account of the major developments at Berkeley since the publication of our report in the summer of 1965." - p. 9.

Berkeley: Regent Press, 2001. Paperback. 267p., illustrated from snapshot photography and documents in facsimile, first edition color pictorial wraps, slightly sun-faded front wrapper, else in very good condition. Burch is a practiced writer, and in the late '50s was hanging around with the likes of James Baldwin, also with Elliot Baker, who blurbs her book admiringly. Her technique here is to present the story of Rosebud as it unfolds before a reader who has been granted ideal access to the data. First, comes the story of her death as reported in the newspapers. Then, the autopsy report, this broken down into three chapters (for reason of length certainly, and surely to soften its grimness); then author's interviews with Rosebud's associates, mostly young, mostly homeless, with their written statements where available. Burch concludes with photographic facsimiles of Rosebud's letters and a People's Park chronology. The shooting death of David Nadel is touched on, of interest in itself and a possibly… Read More

[Berkeley]: Self-published by the author, 1994. Pamphlet. 25p. + [iii], 4x5.5 inch wraps; in very good condition. Reprint of a speech given by the author.

[Berkeley]: Self-published by the author, 1994. Pamphlet. 24p. + [iii], 4x5.5 inch wraps; in very good condition. Reprint of a speech given by the author on Free Speech Day in 1994.

Berkeley: self-published by the translator, 1986. Paperback. v, 111p., one of 500 copies (corrected), slightly toned spine, else very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Rossman was a Free Speech Movement veteran and left-wing activist.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Hardcover. 317p., illus., very good condition in a shelf worn & price clipped dj.

Berkeley: [FSM - Free Speech Movement], 1965. Single text-heavy legal-size sheet, mimeographed on one side; horizontal crease. FSM handbill alleging that Clark Kerr and the Regents are using the issue of obscenity as a smokescreen to move against free speech activities on campus. "Although the FSM holds the recent four-letter-word rallies to have been irresponsible, it upholds the right of all students and faculty members to due process both on and off campus." Lists Free Speech resolutions of the Academic Senate.