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 Regional Newsletter #7
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
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.
New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 1-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: Reaction to Bombings, The Movement, the public and the bombings, more.
SDS Regional Newsletter #5
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 1/24/1965Volume Number: 24-JanFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Report on the Grape Strike and other regional news.
New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: National Program Outlined at Dec. NC for coming months, SDS re-examined at Dec. Conference, Report for the North, more.
On Racism and the Movement
Publisher: The Radical Education ProjectFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Designed to be a general introduction to a political discussion of the struggle against racism in the USA.
SDS Educational Packet- What We Want What We Believe
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Black Panther Party Platform and Program
Debate Within SDS: RYM 11 vs Weatherman
Publisher: Radical Education ProjectFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents: Introduction; Toward a Revolutionary Youth Movement; More on Youth Movement; Notes on Class Analysis: Some Implications for the Revolutionary Youth Movement; Revolutionary Youth Movement II; You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows; Without a Science of Navigation We Cannot Sail in Stormy Seas.
The Fire Next Time
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyVolume Number: Vol. 1-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Cover Story: Class War Comin..
SDS Educational Packet: Imperialism- The Main Enemy of the People of the World
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Imperialism- The Main Enemy of the World
