Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Students
for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a mass student organization that at
its height had chapters on hundreds of college campuses and an estimated
100,000 members. It grew out of the youth branch of the League for
Industrial Democracy, rejecting that organization’s anti-Communism and
seeking to become part of a new student militancy sparked in large part
by the civil rights movement. Its June 1960 founding document, the Port
Huron Statement, advocated radical social involvement under the heading
of “participatory democracy.”
From 1960 until its organizational demise in 1969, SDS played a major role in the social movements of the time, often spearheading campus protests and rebellions, and in particular strengthening the struggle against the war in Vietnam and all of Indochina, as well as engaging in community organizing in poor and working class communities, and support for the civil rights, Black liberation, and other Third World movements in the US. The collection represents a sampling of the periodicals, such as New Left Notes, and other position papers of SDS.
From 1960 until its organizational demise in 1969, SDS played a major role in the social movements of the time, often spearheading campus protests and rebellions, and in particular strengthening the struggle against the war in Vietnam and all of Indochina, as well as engaging in community organizing in poor and working class communities, and support for the civil rights, Black liberation, and other Third World movements in the US. The collection represents a sampling of the periodicals, such as New Left Notes, and other position papers of SDS.
Documents
![SDS Educational Packet: Self-Determination](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Self-Determination
![SDS Educational Packet: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
James Forman: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance
![SDS Educational Packet: The Struggle Against Racism in America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Excerpts from Black Reconstruction by WEB DuBois
![New Left Notes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyVolume Number: Vol. 4-9 Special IssueFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
International Womens Day Issue
![New Left Notes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyVolume Number: Vol. 4-9 Special IssueFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
International Womens Day Issue
![New Left Notes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol. 4-13Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: Repression hits the Panthers, The Schools Must Serve the People, Build SDS in the South, Oakland Seven Acquitted, more.
![SDS Educational Packet: Black Workers Lead](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Black Workers Lead (from Drum)
![New Left Notes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol 4-24Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: Bring the War Home, Proposed SDS Unity Principals, Eldridge Cleaver to Erica Huggins, more.
![SDS Regional Newsletter #7](images/thumbnails//26906.jpg)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 2/22/1966Volume Number: 22-FebFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
South Africa: Suggestions; Tax Refusal Program; Delano Grape Strike; Teenagers and Social Reform; and other regional news.
![New Left Notes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 1-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: National Secretarys report, Notes on the pathology of the NC, the economics of Apartheid, more.