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Jack Weinberg

Released
Date of birth:04. 04. 1940
Age:86
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:California
Support
Civil Rights Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Jack Weinberg

Biography

Jack Weinberg was the Berkeley Free Speech Movement organizer whose October 1, 1964 arrest at a CORE table on Sproul Plaza — and the 32-hour student blockade of the police car holding him — ignited the movement, and who coined the era's slogan "Don't trust anyone over 30." Convicted with the other leaders of the December 1964 Sproul Hall occupation demanding the right to organize politically on campus, he served a 120-day jail sentence.

Case

Charges: Trespass and resisting arrest
Arrested: Dec 3, 1964
Sentence: 120 days Charges as recorded: Trespass and resisting arrest — the December 2-3, 1964 Sproul Hall sit-in (and the October 1, 1964 Sproul Plaza arrest that sparked the Free Speech Movement)
Convicted: Yes