18 Aug 1961 Jahr - The New Left

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Students for a Democratic Society(1960) – formed by Tom Hayden and Al Haber

Port Huron Statement(1962)
“We are people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort, housed in
universities, looking comfortably to the world we inherit”

*absence of individual freedom
*huge organizational structures dominated American culture which served to oppress and alienate
the individual
*believed students had the power to restore “participatory democracy”

Free Speech Movement(1964) Univ. California at Berkeley – Mario Savio
University’s chancellor prohibited “sidewalk solicitations for political causes” which
prompted 2,000 students to sit-in and occupy university buildings

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