Throughout history town hall meetings have used as the best method for individuals of a community to talk and discuss important issues and concerns they themselves and their community may have. In this case the issue at large isn't just pertaining to a single community or an individual, but a whole nation facing arguably one of the most debated issues in American history to date; segregation. In 1964 leaders and activists from both sides of the argument on segregation strongly voiced their thoughts and beliefs on the issue with both sides stating their beliefs with strong conviction and certainty that their opinion on the matter was what was best for our country. .
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One of the many to stand to speak out against segregation during this meeting was a man by the name of Mario Savio. Savio is known as one of the most well-known and beloved speakers during the civil rights movements of the 1960's. Mario Savio was the one who brought the attention of inequality throughout other parts of the country not only the south, most notably at Berkley at the University in California. In today's world Liberalism and desegregation is being viewed as something horrible according to those in positions of power and control, these same men would be the ones who would label "American history closing" after WWII (Savio, 1998). Those in power have a view have the mindset that "nothing new happens" as Savio stated in his speech at the town hall meeting, fortunately this is not the same ways of thinking that all United States citizens possess, the civil rights movement in the south was changing, and therefore there began as some felt as a threat to the freedom of speech taking away the voice of American citizens (Savio, 1998). The bureaucracy is very stuck in their ways and unwilling to change to the new ideas of desegregation, liberalism and other new ideas that call for change, but these ideas actually will never come into use until there is racial equality and justice in all states of this great country.
