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
10 Documents Found
![Students for a Democratic Society & SNCC: Currents & Cross Currents](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/7/1969Call Number: KP 002Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Bernardine Dohrn discusses SDS’s organizational struggle with class, how they plan to move out of “ruling class schools” and insure that racism and imperialism are not abstract terms. Phil Hutchins discusses broadening the base of SNCC, particularly in the South and government repression.
![SDS Educational Packet: Self-Determination](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Self-Determination
![An Interview with Mark Rudd of Students for a Democratic Society](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/20/1968Call Number: KP 004Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Canadian Broadcasting CommitteeCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Rudd explores the victories and failures of the demonstration against Columbia constructing a gym in Morningside Park. The reaction of the administration and the next steps for students organizing against racism and imperialism.
![Students for a Democratic Society in 1969 and the American Scene](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1969Call Number: KP 006Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: KPFA Public AffairsCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Dohrn and Klonsky discuss the inception, numbers, politics and repression of Students for a Democratic Society in 1969.
![Cameron Bishop Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/5/1975Call Number: PM 197AFormat: Cass AProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Cameron Bishop was a member of SDS charged with sabotage and dynamiting power lines near Denver in 1967. He was captured after several years underground and on the FBI's 10-Most Wanted List. His conviction was ultimately reversed.
![Trapped in a System](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 11/27/1965Volume Number: 27-NovFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Monograph in protest to the Vietnam War.
![SDS Educational Packet- What We Want What We Believe](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Imperialism- The Main Enemy of the World
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