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2 unusual facts about Students for a Democratic Society


Rory Ellinger

He also served as University of Missouri - Columbia chapter president of the Students for a Democratic Society.

Student League for Industrial Democracy

It changed its name to the Students for a Democratic Society in 1960 and severed its relationship to LID in 1965.


Business International Corporation

In his book The Strawberry Statement, former student protester James Kunen reports a description of Business International by an unnamed Students for a Democratic Society conference attendee in 1968.

Far-left politics

In the United States, John George and Laird Wilcox have identified the Communist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party, Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society and Progressive Labor Party as some of the groups active on what he refers to as the "far-left".

Gary Dumm

Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History (written by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle) (Hill and Wang, 2008) ISBN 0-8090-9539-4

Lincoln Detox

The Lincoln Hospital's acupuncture drug detoxification clinic was founded in the South Bronx by activists involved with The Black Panther Party, The Republic of New Afrika, the Young Lords, and Students for a Democratic Society.

Lynn Wells

Lynn Wells was a civil rights activist in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960s and was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), and then a national leader of Students for a Democratic Society and the Revolutionary Youth Movement in the late 1960s.

New American Movement

The New American Movement was established at a convention held in Davenport, Iowa in December 1971 by radical political activists seeking to create a successor organization to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

Robert Klonsky

His son Michael Klonsky also became active in politics, becoming a national secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society and later leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).

Sojourner Truth Organization

Noel Ignatiev, a former leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, and a prominent member of the STO, would later contribute to the formulation of critical race theory, and edit Race Traitor magazine.

West End Bar

Mark Rudd, who led the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society and was a prominent member of the Weather Underground after his expulsion from the university in 1968, spent time at the bar while a student.


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