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
Students for a Democratic Society & SNCC: Currents & Cross Currents
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.
Students for a Democratic Society in 1969 and the American Scene
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.
New Left Notes
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
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.
March on Washington 1965 Speech
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 4/17/1965Volume Number: 17-AprFormat: TranscriptCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
On April 17th, 25,000 people participated in a March on Washington to end the War in Vietnam. After two hours of picketing the White House, the President of the Students for a Democratic Society, Paul Potter, closed a meeting in front of the Washington Monument with the following speech.
The Port Huron Statement
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 10/1966Volume Number: OctoberFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Originally printed in August 1962. This was the first official statement of the Students for a Democratic Society.
New Left Notes
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: 101 From the Inside
Publisher: Student Commission of Freedom Road Socialist OrganizationYear: 1987Format: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
This monograph focuses on the history of SDS, the largest organized form taken by the white student movement during the period of the 1960s.
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.
