Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

An extensive SDS archive has been microfilmed by the University of Wisconsin library and is also available at some other university libraries.

Other locations where some SDS documents are lodged:
   NYU Tamiment Library
   U Mass Amherst
   U of Michigan, especially the labor library
   UC Berkeley library
   Southern California Library (an independent progressive library in south-central LA)
   Center for the Study of Political Graphics, LA

Port Huron Statement (complete), Students for a Democratic Society, 1962
Port Huron Statement (excerpts)
Port Huron Statement (Original draft, before it was finalized)

Student Social Action, By Tom Hayden, spring 1962 (20 pages in image format, or PDF file)

SDS Constitution Adopted 1962, with subsequent revisions

America and the New Era, 1963 (25 pages in image format, or large PDF file)

An Interracial Movement of the Poor?, by Tom Hayden and Carl Wittman, 1963 (PDF)

The Care and Feeding of Power Structures, by Jack Minnis, 1963 or 1964 (PDF)

SDS Bulletin (predecessor to New Left Notes)

New Left Notes Some back issues

SDS San Francisco Regional Office - Newsletter

Speech to the first anti-war march on Washington, by Paul Potter, April 1965

Let Us Shape the Future, by Carl Oglesby, November 1965

Democracy Is Nothing If It Is Not Dangerous, by Carl Oglesby, 1965

Democracy, Volume 1 An Introduction to SDS 1965

A Short History of ERAP, by Richard Rothstein, undated, probably 1965 or 1966
Other ERAP:
Chester, PA: A Case Study In Community Organization by Danny Pope, Alain Jehlen, Evan Metcalf and Cathy Wilkerson, undated, probably 1964 or 1965
Organizing Poor Whites by Kim Moody, undated, probably 1964 or 1965
Chicago: Organizing The Unemployed by Richard Flacks, April 1964
ERAP Newsletters (page 1 only):   2/19/1965   7/23/1965 (JPG graphic files)
Wind in the Fields, A Report on Farm Labor, published by SDS - San Francisco Regional Office, probably 1966

Resolution on SNCC, June 18, 1966

Toward A Student Syndicalist Movement, or University Reform Revisited, by Carl Davidson, August 1966

SDS: An Introduction (PDF), 1968

Don't Mourn, Organize: SDS Guide to Community Organizing, May 1968 (39 pages in image format, or large PDF file)

Radicals in the Professions, newsletter, November-December 1968

You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows, New Left Notes, June 18, 1969

Bring the War Home! Organizing pamphlet for SDS National Action, Chicago, October 8-11, 1969 (PDF)

Articles by Clayton Van Lydegraf 1967-1973

Radical America An SDS journal of the history of American radicalism. This magazine was begun by the SDS Radical Education Project in 1967 but continued to 1999. Most issues available here.

Looking Back on the Seattle Conspiracy Trial (1970), by Roger Lippman, 1990

Notes from an SDS Re-Union, by Michael Rossman, 1977

FBI Cointelpro files on SDS

The Bosses' Songbook Part 1 Part 2 (7 MB PDF files) "Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent." This Trotskyite-tinged parody of "The People's Songbook" is a collection of modern political songs of satire. Collected and edited by Dave Van Ronk and Richard Ellington, 1959. These songs were written and passed along by people of every conceivable political and apolitical tendency, and sometimes they don't even express the serious views of the writers themselves. Often they poke fun at the ruling classes, be they capitalist or Soviet.

The following pamphlets and documents are provided as scanned images, saved in Word files. They are fairly large. Click here for access. If that link doesn't work, copy the following address to your browser address line:
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SDS Membership Application 1965-66

SDS Membership Brochure 1964-65

SDS Membership Card 1963-64

SDS Membership Card 1965-66

ERAP Membership Application 1965

Robb Burlage, “This is War? An Analysis of the War of Poverty with Special Emphasis on Appalachia” (SDS 1964?)

Boston SDS Newsletter “New World” including articles by Doug Ireland, Barbara Easton & Joe Persky (Boston SDS 1964)

David Arnold, “Vietnam: Symptom of a World Malaise” (SDS/PREP1964) (originally published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, May 1964)

Christopher Hobson, “Vietnam: Which Way Out?" (SDS/PREP 1965) (originally published in Venture, Winter 1964-65)

Carl Ogelsby, “The Vietnam War: World Revolution and American Containment” (SDS April 1965)

Carl Wittman, “Seminar on Marxism” (SDS 1965?)

Eric Levine, “The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy” (SDS 1965)

Barry Bluestone, “Notes on Campus Program” (UMSEU/VOICE-SDS 1965)

Paul Booth, “A Strategy for University Reform” (SDS 1965?)

Shelley Bloom, “University Reform” (SDS 1965?)

David Wegman, MD, “A Radical Doctor and the Dilemmas of Medical Practice” (Prepared for the July 1967 Conference on Radicals in the Professions, Ann Arbor)

Mike Zweig, “The Radical in the Academic World” (Prepared for the July 1967 Conference on Radicals in the Professions, Ann Arbor)

“Radicals in the Professions: Selected Papers” (REP/SDS October 1967)

Vernon Grizzard, “Summer 1968: Possibilities for New Local Organizing”  (SDS? Spring 1968)

Chuck Levenstein, “Democratic National Convention” (SDS? Spring 1968)

Nick Egleson, “Anguish and Politics” (in Paper Tiger, 1967-68)

Paper Tiger, issues 2 through 5, November 1967 - April 1968, published by (mostly) older Boston-area SDS members. Issue 5 was the final one. (PDF)