Category Archives: SDS

Debating the Working Class 50 Years Ago in SDS: Lessons for Today?

Posted on June 25, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fifty years ago in August 1966 delegates from across the United States attended the annual Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Convention in Clear Lake, Iowa. Located in north central Iowa and held at a local Methodist camp, it provided … Continue reading →

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At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968

Posted on May 6, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Strikers on the ledge of Mathematics Hall, one of five buildings at Columbia University that students took over in April 1968. “The campus of Columbia University is dotted with monuments to illustrious alumni and high-minded ideals. But on a sunny … Continue reading →

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Kent State shootings

Posted on May 2, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre, were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, … Continue reading →

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Underground – Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler, Mary Lampson (1976)

Posted on January 15, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with … Continue reading →

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Decolonizing society: the legacy of 1968

Posted on October 7, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Student protesters in Paris, May ’68. “In 1964, students at the University of California at Berkeley staged a sit-in at Sproul Hall to protest campus restrictions on political activism. Shouting through his bullhorn, Mario Savio, the leader of the Free … Continue reading →

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“The Whole World Is Watching”: An Oral History of the 1968 Columbia Uprising

Posted on October 3, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“At Columbia University in April 1968, about a thousand students forcibly commandeered five campus buildings, effectively igniting the mass student revolts of the 60s. The events that began haphazardly on April 23 soon grew into a public crescendo of awakening … Continue reading →

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Weatherman – edited by Harold Jacobs (1970)

Posted on September 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The first complete picture of the Weatherman in the words of those who theorized, those who acted and those who watched it all – from the SDS split in June 1969 to the bombings in June, 1970. Selected by Harold … Continue reading →

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Aquarius Rising

Posted on September 10, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A protester at a demonstration against the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1968 “Certain years acquire an almost numinous quality in collective memory—1789, 1861, 1914. One of the more recent additions to the list is 1968. Its … Continue reading →

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Buffalo Nine

Posted on August 24, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Buffalo Nine was a group of nine Vietnam War protesters arrested together on August 19, 1968, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Buffalo, New York. During the Vietnam War there was a rise in draft resistance as a political … Continue reading →

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Venceremos Brigade

Posted on August 7, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Fidel Castro “The Venceremos Brigade is a politically motivated international organization founded in 1969 by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and officials of the Republic of Cuba. It was formed as a coalition of young people … Continue reading →

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The Siege of Chicago at 50: Todd Gitlin Remembers

Posted on August 5, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Demonstrators greet military police with jeers outside the Democratic National Convention headquarters, August 29, 1968. “A key figure in and historian of the New Left, Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1964–65 and helped organize … Continue reading →

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Hundred Flowers

Posted on July 13, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Hundred Flowers was an underground newspaper published in Minneapolis, Minnesota from April 17, 1970 to April 4, 1972. It was produced by a communal collective, with the main instigator being antiwar activist and former Smith College drama instructor Ed Felien. … Continue reading →

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Half the Way with Mao Zedong

Posted on May 27, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The American left has never produced a group more self-critical than Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In the years since the organization’s 1969 collapse, its former members have produced an endless stream of mea culpas. Some of this has … Continue reading →

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The Missing History of the Columbia ’68 Protests By Mark Rudd

Posted on April 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Mark Rudd, the president of the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society, addressed students on May 3, 1968. “We entered Barnard and Columbia in the mid-1960s optimistic, eager to learn and proud of our new schools. By the … Continue reading →

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Kudzu, Mississippi’s Radical Underground Newspaper, 1968-1972

Posted on March 29, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Subterranean News from the Heart of Old Dixie,’ the radical counterculture newspaper published 1968-1972 in Jackson, Mississippi, presented by the Student News Project. The Kudzu was among the first underground papers published in the Deep South… in easily the last … Continue reading →

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With the Weathermen: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman – Susan Stern (1975)

Posted on February 20, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Drugs. Sex. Revolutionary violence. From its first pages, Susan Stern’s memoir With the Weathermen provides a candid, first-hand look at the radical politics and the social and cultural environment of the New Left during the late 1960s. The Weathermen–a U.S.-based, … Continue reading →

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Diana Oughton

Posted on February 8, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Diana Oughton (January 26, 1942 – March 6, 1970) was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr … Continue reading →

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Columbia University protests of 1968

Posted on January 27, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Mark Rudd, Chairman of the Students for Democratic Society, talks to reporters. “The Columbia University protests of 1968 were among the many student demonstrations that occurred around the world in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of … Continue reading →

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American Deserters Committee

Posted on January 19, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Draft-age Americans being counseled by Mark Satin (far left) at the Anti-Draft Programme office on Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967. The front room was so crowded at the time that the counseling session here is taking place in one … Continue reading →

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Next Left Notes

Posted on January 3, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Next Left Notes (NLN) is an independent radical publication and weblog connected to the 2006 re-incarnation of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). NLN began producing print versions in March 2008 – to mark its 4th anniversary. Next Left Notes … Continue reading →

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Liberation Magazine (1956–77)

Posted on December 2, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Liberation Magazine (1956–77) was a bimonthly, later a monthly, magazine identified in the 1960s with the New Left. Liberation was founded, published, and edited by David Dellinger, Bayard Rustin, Sidney Lens, Roy Finch, and A. J. Muste out of New … Continue reading →

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Venceremos Brigade

Posted on November 10, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Loz diez millones van!  Fidel Castro cuts cane, 1970 “The Venceremos Brigade is a politically motivated international organization founded in 1969 by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and officials of the Republic of Cuba. It was formed … Continue reading →

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Panther 21 – April 2, 1969

Posted on October 29, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“May 13, 1996 marks the 25th anniversary of the acquittal of the Panther 21, who in 1971 were the leadership of the eastern region of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Panther 21 were arrested in a pre-dawn raid on  … Continue reading →

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Rising Up Angry

Posted on October 21, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Rising Up Angry was a radical youth movement organized as a militant community organization based in working class communities in Chicago, parallelling but not part of the Weatherman Underground and Revolutionary Youth Movement currents in New Left politics at the … Continue reading →

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SDS – Kirkpatrick Sale (1973)

Posted on October 17, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Social scientists and historians, not to mention college administrators and police agencies, continue to puzzle over how a student movement as radical as SDS could have emerged from the wizened anti-Communist League for Industrial Democracy, and then grown to such … Continue reading →

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The Great Speckled Bird

Posted on September 16, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Great Speckled Bird was a counterculture underground newspaper based in Atlanta, Georgia from 1968 to 1976. It was founded by New Left activists from Emory University and members of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, an offshoot of Students for … Continue reading →

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What I Saw on the Way to the Revolution

Posted on September 16, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

People gathered for a concert in Tompkins Square Park in 1967. “In June 1967, in the freewheeling spirit of the times, I dropped out of Antioch College, in Ohio, and hitchhiked to New York. I was 19, mildly though not … Continue reading →

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Radical America

Posted on September 2, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Radical America was a left wing political magazine in the United States established in 1967. The magazine was founded by Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle, activists in Students for a Democratic Society and served during its first few years … Continue reading →

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Days of Rage

Posted on August 11, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Police arrest demonstrators at a “Days of Rage” protest, in Chicago, on October 11, 1969, organized by the Weathermen, a radical offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society. “The Days of Rage demonstrations were a series of direct actions taken … Continue reading →

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Jack Newfield

Posted on July 17, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jack Abraham Newfield (February 18, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was an American muckraking journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker, activist, and fierce champion of underdogs. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, … Continue reading →

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Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones Speak at SDS Press Conference

Posted on July 16, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bill Ayers was born in December 1944 and was raised in a Chicago suburb. In the mid-1960s he taught at a radical alternative school — part of the ‘free school movement’ — where students addressed teachers by their first names, … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Protest, 1965-1975 by Tom Hayden

Posted on July 14, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The era of protest against Vietnam – 1965-75 – was unique as the emergence of a nationwide peace movement on a scale not seen before in American history. There were previous war resisters, for example, the Society of Friends, the … Continue reading →

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Old Mole

Posted on July 3, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Old Mole was a radical New Left oriented underground newspaper published in Cambridge, Massachusetts from September 1968 to September 1970. Printed biweekly in a 16-page tabloid format, it was based for most of its existence in a storefront and basement … Continue reading →

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Teach-ins

Posted on June 2, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

1965: Vietnam era teach-in at University of Michigan “A teach-in is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs. The main difference between a teach-in and a seminar is the refusal … Continue reading →

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Port Huron Statement

Posted on May 30, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the North American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). It was written primarily by Tom Hayden, a University of Michigan student and then the Field Secretary of … Continue reading →

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