jan 1, 1960 - Students for a Democratic Society

Description:

-college student who organized for social change

Port Huron Statement:
-Tom Hayden expressed the students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the Gulf between the rich and the poor as well as rejection of Cold War foreign policy

The New Left:
-movement by the founders of the SDS who focused on social issues rather than economic and labor
-major influence on college campuses -> student political activity was banned

Free Speech Movement:
-in protest, students organized a sit-in at the administration building
-antiwar protests

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