1 thoughts on “Google Docs – 1970s”

1. Samantha Smith November 20, 2017 at 1:09 pm

   Topic: SDS/ Weathermen
   Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, was founded in 1962 when a group of students, most of whom were from prestigious universities, gathered in Michigan to form an organization that would help amplify their demands. The Port Huron statement declared their disassociation with the current American society, and they’re strong hope to improve it. Some members tried, unsuccessfully, to mobilize those in the working class as well but the most influential and successful people of the group were the college students. The University of California, for example, was a hotspot for political conflict with the presence of the so-called Free Speech Movement. Beginning with a revolution in 1964, demonstrations and riots became almost common place. Other than some extreme examples, however, most campus radicals were rarely violent, except in some of their rhetoric. But often the most violent people of the movement, such as the Weathermen, became the popular image of radical college students. Weathermen were the violent, hyper-radical offshoot of SDS. They were responsible for numerous cases of arson and bombings that destroyed campus property and claimed lives. Barely anyone, Other college students, excepted the hypothetical mean shared by the Weathermen, but they were in favor of normal SDS positions and particular issues; especially on the subject of the Vietnam War.