The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California, Berkeley began in the fall of 1964. (Freeman, Jo) But many events have led to this point. The free speech movement began to gain momentum in the fall of 1963, and in the spring of 1964, the Bay Area was rocked by civil rights protests against employers who practiced racial discrimination. (Freeman, Jo) These students thought it was wrong and felt the need to do something about it. Many Berkeley students were recruited for these protests at Bancroft and Telegraph, where companies were racially discriminating against races and groups of people. (Freeman, Jo) With these protests, numerous arrests of Berkeley students took place. There were around 500 arrests. over several months. (Freeman, Jo)The free speech movement was a phenomenon on college campuses first inspired by the struggle for civil rights and then fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War. (The Free Speech Movement) The Free Speech Movement sparked an unprecedented wave of activism and student involvement, among such multitudes that the college administration didn't know what to do with it all this activist, fighting and protesting for the same cause. (The Free Speech Movement.) Since the administration didn't know what to do, it banned all political activities on campus, for fear that something bad would happen. (Free Speech Movement) With this ban on political activities on campus, a Berkeley alumnus set up a table right in the center of campus proper, with political information. (Free Speech Movement) A reporter for the Oakland Tribune discovered that this political activity was taking place on the campus itself; when the news reached the camp...... middle of paper ...... it's on a personal level and everyone feels like they can be part of this movement in one way or another . This is a movement like no other that Occupy Wall Street has not experienced. leader, they have no official demands for what they want. They are unsure of the results they want to achieve because no one is leading the group and speaking for the group. The Occupy Wall Street movement has been quoted as saying, “We are all the leaders” (Gautney). Unlike the FSM movement where there were key leaders in the movement, the Occupy Wall Street movement is led by people showing up there and protesting. their support for the movement. Another thing that sets the Occupy Wall Street movement apart is that each local organization that leads them establishes their own goals and practices that will work for them and what they are trying to put forward in their movement. (Gautney)