Port Huron Declaration
The Port Huron Statement was 59 by the US on 11 June 1962 SDS invited (Students for a Democratic Society) delegates from American student groups in Port Huron ( Michigan adopted).
The aim of the declaration was to write down the political will of the students in order to provide a basis for discussion for those groups who wanted to deal with the SDS. The declaration is based on a 75-page document by Tom Hayden , which described the philosophy of the SDS from his point of view. In the document known as the Port Huron Statement , the students opposed racism in the southern United States and the danger of nuclear war created by the Cold War . The US political system was also criticized and the demand for “participatory democracy” was raised, since in the eyes of the students power in the United States was exercised by a small ruling elite. The universities were seen in this document as a central place for changing the situation and the politically active students were given an educational role.
The declaration gained importance beyond the USA and became an important writing for the 1968 movement .