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
4 Documents Found
![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 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.
![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.
4 Documents Found