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](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.
![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.
![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.
![Revolution in Mississippi](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyVolume Number: JanuaryFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Monograph describing civil rights activities and efforts in Mississippi in the early 1960s.
![New Left Notes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](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.
![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.