1. Jack Weinberg's father owned a small jewelry business in Buffalo.
20 Facts About Jack Weinberg
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Jack Weinberg spent the summer of 1963 traveling in the South and visiting civil rights groups.
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Jack Weinberg returned to Berkeley and began his second semester of grad school in the fall of 1963 but then withdrew mid-semester to devote himself full-time to civil rights activities.
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Jack Weinberg remained in the Bay Area throughout the summer of 1964.
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On October 1,1964, Jack Weinberg was sitting at the CORE table in Sproul Plaza.
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Jack Weinberg refused to show his identification to the campus police and was arrested at noon for violating the university's new rules regarding student political activism.
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Jack Weinberg, too, addressed the crowd from the top of the police car.
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Jack Weinberg called his close friend, classmate and free speech supporter, John Wingfield McGuire to pick him up from jail and bring him to John and Rosemary McGuire's house on Russell Street near Telegraph Avenue, where Jack began making phone calls to begin organizing the next critical steps in the free speech movement.
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Jack Weinberg suggested "Free Speech Movement" and that's the name that was adopted, by a margin of one vote.
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FSM leader Mario Savio later stated that Jack Weinberg was the FSM's key tactician.
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An Oakland Tribune photo from early January 1965 shows Jack Weinberg speaking, alongside Savio, to a large campus crowd.
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Jack Weinberg is credited with the phrase, "Don't trust anyone over 30".
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Jack Weinberg moved to Los Angeles to work as labor correspondent for a radical weekly underground newspaper, the Los Angeles Free Press.
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Jack Weinberg served as the California state chairperson of the Peace and Freedom Party from August 1968 until November 1968.
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In 1975, Jack Weinberg was the editor of Network, Voice of UAW Militants which was a new bimonthly magazine for members of the UAW labor union.
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Jack Weinberg then moved to Gary, Indiana, where he became a steelworker and was involved in the United Steelworkers union.
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In 1982, Jack Weinberg led a coalition of environmentalists, unionists, and community members in defeating a proposal to construct a nuclear power plant in Indiana on Lake Michigan.
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Jack Weinberg then began working for the Environmental Health Fund.
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Jack Weinberg is a consultant to groups seeking to clean up environmental pollution.
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Jack Weinberg is a grandfather of three and has an adjunct faculty position in public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago.