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Peter Franck attended the University of California Berkeley as an undergraduate between 1953 and 1958, during which time he was one of the founders of the student political organization SLATE. Franck was born in London, England, which was his parents’ first stop after leaving Germany following Hitler’s ascension to power. The family then moved to Berkeley, California, where Peter attended John Muir Grammar School. After completing high school in Sydney, Australia, he returned to the U.S, earning both a B.A. (Psychology) from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. Shortly after opening his law practice in Berkeley, Peter served as a legal advisor to Mario Savio and student members of the Free Speech Movement at UC. As the attorney for the Vietnam Day Committee, he worked to secure the rights of protesters against the Vietnam War. In this oral history, Mr. Franck discusses the following topics: the state of political consciousness on the Berkeley campus in the 1950s; the establishment of SLATE in 1958 and its early influence; later activities of SLATE and the Free Speech Movement; the legacy of SLATE.

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