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
3 Documents Found
March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 4/17/1965Volume Number: 17-AprFormat: PamphletCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Pamphlet explaining what you can do to be a part of the April 1965 Anti-War March on Washington
Mississippi Summer Project
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PamphletCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Information on the Mississippi Summer Project including Voter Registration, Freedom Schools, Community Centers, Research Project, White Community Project, Law Student Project and contact information.
SDS Pamphlet
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PamphletCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Information on SDS, its goals and its programs.
3 Documents Found
