Students for a Democratic Society

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS, Students for a Democratic Society ) called himself a student organization in the United States . It was founded in Ann Arbor in 1960 . You were part of the New Left , which formed a cornerstone of the student movement in the 1960s . They supported the civil rights movement advocating legal equality . With the Vietnam War they became the main focal point for protesting students .

With anti-war activity, the student movement became increasingly radical , and after militant groups split off, the SDS disintegrated in 1969.

The positions of the SDS are set out in the Port Huron Declaration , based on a draft by Tom Hayden , which was adopted in Port Huron on June 11, 1962 . In 1974 it was dissolved.

literature

• Florian Butollo: Rebels with a Cause - The History of the American Student Movement. In: Library of Resistance. LAIKA-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-942281-74-4 .
• Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey: The 1968 Movement - Germany, Western Europe, USA. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-47983-0 .
• Tom Hayden: The Port Huron Statement - The visionary call of the 1960s revolution. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York 2005, ISBN 1-56025-741-5 .

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