Biography
Roberta Alexander was a Berkeley civil-rights and antiwar activist who participated in the Free Speech Movement. In December 1964 she was arrested in the Sproul Hall sit-in while still seventeen. She gave a false birth date to avoid being sent to juvenile hall. While studying in Madrid in 1967, she was jailed again after speaking against the Vietnam War and was subsequently expelled from Spain. She later organized with the Communist Party and became an educator.
