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
![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.
![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
![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
![America and the New Era](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 6/1963Volume Number: JuneFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Monograph prepared at the June 1963 convention of the Students for a Democratic Society.
![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)
![Cultural Revolution in China](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
An interview between Chris Milton, a US college student who spent three years in China, and the Movement newspaper staff. This interview first appeared in the Movement Newspaper.
![The Port Huron Statement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![SDS: 101 From the Inside](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](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.