PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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National Organization for Women (NOW)
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The Beat Generation
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Detailed explanation-2: -The SDS manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, was adopted at the organization’s first convention in June 1962, based on an earlier draft by staff member Tom Hayden.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Port Huron Statement” was the manifesto of the Students for the Democratic Society. Tom Hayden, a leader of the original SDS, as well as a student at University of Michigan was the working force behind the document.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States in the 1960s (1960 to 1969). A new SDS group was also begun in 2006.
Detailed explanation-5: -But there was no single political doctrine; for most of its existence (1962-69), SDS was an amalgam of left-liberal, socialist, anarchist and increasingly Marxist currents and tendencies. From 1965 on, it was focused chiefly on opposing the Vietnam war.