Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

LC control no.	n 50010551
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	SDS (Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)) League for Industrial Democracy. Students for a Democratic Society S.D.S. (Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.))
See also	Successor: Students for a Democratic Society (1969-1974) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	1959
Special note	Old catalog heading: Students for a Democratic Society
Found in	U.S. Cong. H. Com. on Int. Security. Investigation of, 1969 Schapsmeir, E. Political parties and civic action groups, 1981: p. 436 (Students for a Democratic Society; organized 1959 by League of Industrial Democracy to take the place of moribund Student League for Industrial Democracy; all ties to League for Industrial Democracy severed, 1965) Encycl. Americana, 1989 ed. (Students for a Democratic Society; American radical student group founded in Chicago in 1960; by 1969, SDS had branches in some 400 colleges; in that year it split into factions: Progressive Labor faction, a pro-Mao group [no publs. in LC data base]; the Revolutionary Youth Movement--II which sought to transfer the university into an arena of revolutionary action; and Weatherman faction, also known as Revolutionary Youth Movement--I, considering itself the vanguard of violent revolution) New York times. Education life, Jan. 6, 2008: p. 17-20 (Students for a Democratic Society; S.D.S.; activist group dormant for nearly 40 years; now with 120 active chapters and 3,000 registered members; original S.D.S. had become major force in opposition to Vietnam War; collapsed in 1969 into radicalized factions) Wikipedia, viewed April 16, 2020: Worker Student Alliance (the Worker Student Alliance (WSA) was a section of Students for a Democratic Society led by the Progressive Labor party. The section split from SDS at its 1969 convention and formed SDS-WSA; all active SDS chapters after 1970 were SDS-WSA, so the "WSA" initials were dropped from the name; SDS voted to dissolve itself and join the International Committee Against Racism in 1974)