Mario Savio
Male, Deceased Person
1942 – 1996
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Who was Mario Savio?
Mario Savio was an American political activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially the "put your bodies upon the gears" address given at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964.
Savio remains historically relevant as an icon of the earliest phase of the 1960s counterculture movement.
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- Born
- Dec 8, 1942
Queens - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- San Francisco State University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Oxford
- Manhattan College
- Employment
- Sonoma State University
- Died
- Nov 6, 1996
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on July 23, 2013
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