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An extensive SDS archive has been microfilmed by the University of Wisconsin library and is also available at some other university libraries.

Port Huron Statement (complete), Students for a Democratic Society, 1962
 Port Huron Statement (excerpts)
 Port Huron Statement (Original draft, before it was finalized)

Student Social Action, By Tom Hayden, spring 1962 (20 pages in image format, or PDF file)

America and the New Era, 1963 (25 pages in image format, or large PDF file)

SDS Bulletin (predecessor to New Left Notes)

New Left Notes Some back issues

SDS San Francisco Regional Office - Newsletter

Speech to the first anti-war march on Washington, by Paul Potter, April 1965

Let Us Shape the Future, by Carl Oglesby, November 1965

Democracy Is Nothing If It Is Not Dangerous, by Carl Oglesby, 1965

Democracy, Volume 1 An Introduction to SDS 1965

A Short History of ERAP, by Richard Rothstein, undated, probably 1965 or 1966

Wind in the Fields, A Report on Farm Labor, published by SDS - San Francisco Regional Office, probably 1966

Resolution on SNCC, June 18, 1966

Toward A Student Syndicalist Movement, or University Reform Revisited, by Carl Davidson, August 1966

Don't Mourn, Organize: SDS Guide to Community Organizing, May 1968 (39 pages in image format, or large PDF file)

Radicals in the Professions, newsletter, November-December 1968

You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows, New Left Notes, June 18, 1969

Articles by Clayton Van Lydegraf 1967-1973

Notes from an SDS Re-Union, by Michael Rossman, 1977

Looking Back on the Seattle Conspiracy Trial (1970), by Roger Lippman, 1990

FBI Cointelpro files on SDS

The following pamphlets and documents are provided as scanned images, saved in Word files. They are fairly large. Click here for access. If that link doesn't work, copy the following address to your browser address line:
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  • SDS Membership Application 1965-66

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  • SDS Membership Brochure 1964-65

  • SDS Membership Card 1963-64

  • SDS Membership Card 1965-66

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  • ERAP Membership Application 1965

  • Robb Burlage, “This is War? An Analysis of the War of Poverty with Special Emphasis on Appalachia” (SDS 1964?)

  • Boston SDS Newsletter “New World” including articles by Doug Ireland, Barbara Easton & Joe Persky (Boston SDS 1964)

  • David Arnold, “Vietnam: Symptom of a World Malaise” (SDS/PREP1964) (originally published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, May 1964)

  • Christopher Hobson, “Vietnam: Which Way Out?" (SDS/PREP 1965) (originally published in Venture, Winter 1964-65)

  • Carl Ogelsby, “The Vietnam War: World Revolution and American Containment” (SDS April 1965)

  • Carl Wittman, “Seminar on Marxism” (SDS 1965?)

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  • Eric Levine, “The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy” (SDS 1965)

  • Barry Bluestone, “Notes on Campus Program” (UMSEU/VOICE-SDS 1965)

  • Paul Booth, “A Strategy for University Reform” (SDS 1965?)

  • Shelley Bloom, “University Reform” (SDS 1965?)

  • David Wegman, MD, “A Radical Doctor and the Dilemmas of Medical Practice” (Prepared for the July 1967 Conference on Radicals in the Professions, Ann Arbor)

  • Mike Zweig, “The Radical in the Academic World” (Prepared for the July 1967 Conference on Radicals in the Professions, Ann Arbor)

  • “Radicals in the Professions: Selected Papers” (REP/SDS October 1967)

  • Vernon Grizzard, “Summer 1968: Possibilities for New Local Organizing”  (SDS? Spring 1968)

  • Chuck Levenstein, “Democratic National Convention” (SDS? Spring 1968)

  • Nick Egleson, “Anguish and Politics” (in Paper Tiger, 1967-68)

  • Paper Tiger, issues 2 through 5, November 1967 - April 1968, published by (mostly) older Boston-area SDS members. Issue 5 was the final one. (PDF)

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