Scott Saul, an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixtiesand, most recently, Becoming Richard Pryor(HarperCollins), a biography of the performer. For Scott Saul’s multimedia archive of Richard Pryor’s life, go to www.becomingrichardpryor.com.
Behind Richard Pryor’s jokes and barbs was a man yearning to be free.
At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.