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...SDS member describes the beginning. "In those days we were not big, not popular. SDS had to sell its own ideas, without the help of the War. And we did come up with distinctive ideas all our own." The philosophy stressed quality of life, poor-white organizing, and community power within a critique of corporate liberalism. There was militant anti-anti-communism, i.e., the true enemies in this country are the closed-minded red baiters...
...SDS had grown to a real national organization with about 500 members. A year and a half later, summer 1964, the strength of community organizing as a tactic had gained general acceptance among the nation's activists. That summer SDS started the Economic Resistance into Action Project (ERAB) in Boston, Newark, Cleveland, Baltimore and Chicago. About 150 radicals worked full time to organize ghettos on unemployment, rent, and welfare considerations...
That was also the summer when the great wave of Northern students went South to work for civil rights. There they viewed community organizing first hand. Many came back itching to create a SNCC in the North. When they found SDS was doing just that, they joined...
...there was overwhelming cooperation. Radicals joined with Kennedy liberals to support LBJ, believing that underneath his assertion to "support all the people," there was a resolve to start a liberal revolution. While Harvard SDS worked for Johnson, they also supported independent Noel Day in his campaign to unseat House Speaker John McCormack. Their campaign slogan expressed the radical mood: "Part of the Way with LBJ; the Rest of the Way with Noel...
...Although this idea was thought up by SDS members, it is, by no means, exclusively an SDS project," Ansara said. "Half of the 20 people now working on the idea do not belong to SDS," he added...