Free Speech Monument
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The Free Speech Monument
The free movement started in the fall of 19 64, when students set up a table in sprawl plaza to recruit for an off campus civil rights group. The following months were marked by citizens and strikes and arrest it was a pivotal moment that to find what we think of as the sixties. So anyway, it's 19 89. Call went out. Hundreds of designs were considered. Close to 300 entries from all over the country. They weeded that down to five; mark brassvan kempin's column of earth and air is the free speech monument.
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