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This amalgamation reflected the amazing expansion of SDS. The 1962 Port Huron Statement, still the group's basic document of purpose, established SDS as the student spear-head of the New Left. It articulated a unique philosophy of white activism based not on economic exploitation but on "participatory democracy...
...established representative groups and the independent activist movement form two sides of the triangle of student politics at Harvard. Whether all student politics could be decided by the operations of the triangle's third side, SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). The future form and content of student politics is what's at stake in the interplay of these three forces. If the Masters make no concessions at the joint meeting on October 31, the HUC could disband or fully endorse the independent activist movement. If SDS becomes involved, the HUC could withdraw and then student action would be connected...
...about the same time SDS was born. It evolved from an extreme left-wing group which managed to survive the silent '50's, the League for Industrial Democracy. The Student Department of the League was a group of about 100 kids whose parents were veterans of the Old Left. In 1959 they asserted their independence and named themselves Students for a Democratic Society. For the next three years SDS consisted of 150 to 300 student activists from traditionally radical campuses like Swarthmore, Oberlin, and the University of Michigan. It was a small coterie of personal friends attempting to create...
...While SDS was trying to define a distinct home for itself on the far Left, the civil rights movement was capturing the attention of the country. For the next four years, until the end of 1964, civil rights marches and non-violent protests were the training and recruiting grounds for the nation's activists...
...FOUR years of steadily increasing activism, protest groups began looking for a multi-issue approach to American ills. It was clear to many activists that peace, discrimination, and poverty were not autonomous events. In the fall of 1964, Tocsin, by then operating at a bare subsistence level, officially became SDS. CRCC and the Harvard Socialist Club joined up to create a single organization including all elements of the Harvard radical community...