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e. Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships and parliamentary procedure, the founders conceived of the organization as a broad exercise in ...
Students for a Democratic Society; Abbreviation: SDS: Formation: 2006: Type: Student activist organization: Purpose: To build a fighting student movement against US wars and intervention, racist discrimination, police crimes, homophobic and transphobic attacks, attacks on women, attacks on reproductive rights, and more.
The Port Huron Statement[ 1] is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). [ 2] It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers (UAW) retreat outside of Port Huron, Michigan (now part of Lakeport State Park ), for the group's first ...
Ayers became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). [11] He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969 as head of an SDS regional group, the "Jesse James Gang". [12] The group Ayers headed in Detroit, Michigan, became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weathermen.
The 1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention held in June of that year in Chicago, Illinois was the final convention held by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The gathering, which took place over June 18–22, was one of four conventions that officers and members of SDS attended each year.
D. Carl Davidson. Mike Davis (scholar) Bernardine Dohrn. Dianne Donghi. Thorne Webb Dreyer.
The Days of Rage were a series of protests during three days in October 1969 in Chicago, organized by the emerging Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The group planned the October 8–11 event as a "National Action" built around John Jacobs' slogan "bring the war home", [1] which grew out of a resolution drafted by ...
The Student League for Industrial Democracy ( SLID) of 1946 to 1959 was the second incarnation of the League for Industrial Democracy 's student group. It changed its name to the Students for a Democratic Society on January 1, 1960, and severed its connection to the LID in 1965.