Part 1 (Mss 177, Audio 517A, Micro 655): Original Collection, 1958-1970
Alternate Format: Records available on ProQuest History Vault.

Physical Description: 22.2 cubic feet (57 archives boxes), 24 tape recordings, and 41 reels of microfilm (35 mm) 
Scope and Content Note

The records for the Students for a Democratic Society, 1958-1970, consist of 57 boxes of various types of paper documentation as well as 24 tape recordings. These give a fragmentary but extremely revealing picture of one of the major radical organizations of the decade of the 1960s. (The microfilm in Archives' custody is a security copy only; a user copy is owned by the Historical Society Library.)

These records are incomplete and confusingly arranged for a variety of reasons. The organizational structure of SDS was such that few people remained in the national offices long enough to provide for continuity of record-keeping. In the period from mid-1962 until mid-1965, SDS maintained four separate national offices -- the National Office itself (which served as the administrative hub of the organization), and the national offices of ERAP, PREP, and PEP; when these various offices were consolidated, many files were abandoned, lost en route, or deliberately destroyed. And from 1966 to 1973, the records now in this collection came to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in ten installments from four donors. The various national office files have been augmented by the records of individuals prominent in SDS and of local chapters and projects; this was done by the Society after acquiring the collection or by the national offices prior to the acquisition.

These SDS archives have been arranged into three chronological series of paper records and one series of tape recordings. The first series documents the period from January 1958 to August 1962 when SDS's National Office in New York City was first emerging from LID's shadow and developing its own programs and organization. Series 2 reflects the confusing period from the fall of 1962 until August 1965 when SDS dedicated itself to reforming U.S. society, primarily by developing community action programs to revitalize grassroots democracy. This, the most fully documented of the series, is broken down into four sections -- Subseries 2A, the files of the National Office in Chicago; Subseries 2B, files of ERAP; Subseries 2C, files of PREP; and Subseries 2D, files of PEP. Series 3 concerns the period September 1965 until 1970 during which time the National Office was recentralized in Chicago and SDS finally broke apart under the strain of its increasing factionalism and revolutionary orientation. Patrick M. Quinn of the Society's Manuscripts staff and radical historian James O'Brien determined this arrangement as the most nearly accurate reflection of how the national offices probably kept their records. A more lengthy and detailed description of each series precedes the contents list for that series.

There is some overlap among the series and much within the sub-series. For instance, many letters in the correspondence sub-series have attached related documents (pamphlets, reports, speeches, notes, etc.) necessary to understanding the sense of the letter. And many letters that relate to the project and publication files are arranged with the general correspondence.

As is unfortunately common in the files of radical groups, the financial and membership records are quite spotty. However, the material on chapters and local groups, and on related organizations is quite extensive, though not always of high informational quality; exceptions are the files of particularly active chapters such as that of the University of Wisconsin and of such related groups as the United Auto Workers and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Of the factions that finally split SDS apart, the Weathermen are the most heavily documented, especially Bernardine Dohrn; but there is little concerning RYM I and II, and even less concerning the PL forces.

To supplement the information in this collection, the researcher is advised to consult the Society's collections of other individuals and groups in the leftist, labor, civil rights, and anti-war movements and the file of Social Action ephemera of the 1960s. Tape-recorded interviews with Patrick M. Quinn give more information about the acquisition of these records and their condition at the time of acquisition. And the Society's Library has a nearly complete file of SDS publications, perhaps the most complete in the United States.

The following list includes correspondents identified as to the major position they held at the time of the correspondence or the organization with which they were mainly associated. Numbers after the names indicate the series in which the bulk of their correspondence is located.

Select List of Correspondents (not members of SDS)

Correspondent	Series or Subseries
Gar Alperovitz, aide, Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)	2B, 2C
Stanley Aronowitz, chairman, Committee for Miners	2B, 2C, 3
P.F. Ayer, executive secretary, Council for the Southern Mountains	2B
Irving Bluestone, administrative assistant to the president, United Auto Workers (UAW)	2B
Carl Braden, Southern Conference Educational Fund	2A
Jack Conway, assistant to the president, UAW	2B, 2D
David Dellinger, anti-war activist	2A
Paul Douglas, U.S. Senator (D-ILL)	2B
Mrs. Cyrus Eaton, philanthropist	2C
Frank Emspak, National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam	2A
James Forman, executive secretary, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)	2B
Paul Goodberg, executive director, Americans for Democratic Action	2C
Paul Goodman, radical educator	2A, 3
Arthur Gorson, executive secretary, Committee for Miners	2B
Sanford Gottleib, SANE	2A, 2C
Ralph Helstein, president, United Packinghouse Workers of America	2A, 2C
Abbott (Abbie) Hoffman, anti-war activist	3
Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School	1, 2A
Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice-President	2C
Sidney Lens, anti-war activist	2A
John Lewis, chairman, SNCC	2D
Staughton Lynd, civil rights and anti-war activist	1, 2A, 2C
Hans Morganthau, economics professor	2C
Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator (D-ORE)	2A
Robert Moses (Parris), SNCC	2B
A.J. Muste, anti-war activist	2A
Stanley Newman, Institute for Policy Studies	2D
Victor Rabinowitz, attorney and philanthropist	2B
Walter Reuther, president, United Auto Workers	2B
Joseph Rourke, deputy director, AFL-CIO	2D
Martin Roysher, Berkeley Free Speech Movement	2A
Morris Rubin, editor, The Progressive	2B
Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader	2B
Andre Schiffrin, League for Industrial Democracy	1
Sargent Shriver, director, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity	2B
Donald Slaiman, Director of Civil Rights, AFL-CIO	3
I.F. Stone, journalist	2C, 3
F.W. Stover, president, U.S. Farmers' Association	3
Harold Taylor, chairman, National Council on a Peace Strategy	2C
Weston Vivian, U.S. Congressman (D-MICH)	2B
Arthur Waskow, Institute for Policy Studies	2D
Sidney Yates, U.S. Congressman (D-ILL)	2B
Holgate Young, financial secretary, Workers' Educational Local #189, American Federation of Teachers	2D

Name used in Correspondence	Full Name
Al	Al Haber
Bernardine	Bernardine Dohrn
Booth	Paul Booth
Carl	Carl Wittman
Carol	Carol McEldowney
Casey	Casey Hayden
Cathy	Cathy Wilkerson
Clark	Clark Kissinger
dbm	Don McKelvey
Don	Don McKelvey
Harriet	Harriet Stulman
Helen	Helen Garvey
Lee	Lee Webb
Liora	Liora Proctor
Mark	Mark Sher
McEl	Carol McEldowney
Nancy	Nancy Bancroft
Nick	Nick Egleson
Paul	Paul Potter
RAH	Al Haber
Rennie	Rennard Davis
Richie	Richard Rothstein
Steve	Steve Johnson
Steve	Steve Max (has trouble with spelling)
Todd	Todd Gitlin
Tom	Tom Hayden
Vernon	Vernon Grizzard

Series: 1: National Office, 1958 January-1962 August
Scope and Content Note

The 3 boxes of material in this series relate to various aspects of SDS during its initial period of growth, 1958-1962. There are papers from national conventions and meetings, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) and the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), SDS officers' correspondence and statements, project files, and material from related groups.

The convention papers include correspondence; conference papers; lists of participants; notes; and reports pertaining to civil rights, anti-war activities, foreign policy, and recruitment. There are correspondence, notes, proposals, and statements referring to LID's relationship to and control over SLID and SDS. The SDS officers' correspondence and statements concern civil rights and anti-war activities, intra-organizational matters, and membership drives. The project files include information on civil rights, peace politics, Venture, and a voter registration pamphlet; there are correspondence, notes, manuscripts of articles, proposals, and reports. Among the related group materials are papers from the Earlham Political Issues Committee, First Intercollegiate Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control, and the National Student Association; these files include correspondence, clippings, and reports. There is also a folder of miscellaneous printed material dating from this period.

Subseries: National Conventions and Meetings
Arrangement of the Materials: Chronological by date of meeting

National Convention, amended constitution, 1959 June

Conference for Human Rights in the North, 1960 April-May

Evaluation meeting, 1961 December-1962 January, undated

Chapel Hill Conference

General, 1961-1962 May

National Executive Committee minutes, 1962 May

Port Huron Convention (including Port Huron Statement), 1962 May-June

Subseries: LID, SLID and SDS

LID, 1960 March-1964

SLID, 1958 January-1959 October, undated

LID Dispute after Port Huron, 1962

SDS officers' correspondence and reports

Al Haber, 1960 June-1962 January

Tom Hayden, 1961 January-December

Miscellaneous, 1962 February, undated

Subseries: Projects

Civil rights, 1960 May-1962 May

Peace politics, 1962 February-August

Venture manuscripts, 1960

Venture manuscripts, 1961-1962

Correspondence, 1965 January

Voter registration pamphlet, 1962

Subseries: Related Groups

Aids for Peace Action, Earlham Political Action Committee, TOCSIN, 1960-1962, undated

First Intercollegiate Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control - questionnaire, correspondence, and clippings, 1962 April-December

National Student Association

Conference on Youth Service Abroad, circa 1961 April

Liberal Study Group, 1961 June-August

Liberal Study Group, 1962 June-August

Washington Peace March, 1962 February

Miscellaneous printed and near-print material, 1960 May-1962 May

Series: 2: Records, 1962 Fall-1965 August
Scope and Content Note: The 12 boxes of material in Series 2 generally dates from the fall of 1962 to August 1965, although there is some overlap with the other series. This material documents the period when SDS still considered reform of the U.S. system possible and maintained four separate national offices: the National Office (the administrative hub of the organization) and the offices of the Economic Research and Action Project, of the Peace Research and Education Project, and of the Political Education Project. The ERAP and Boston PREP files are remarkably complete. The records of each of these offices has been arranged in separate sections within this series.

Subseries: 2A: National Office, 1962-1965; undated
Scope and Content Note

Included are a voluminous amount of correspondence as well as reports, minutes, literature requests, membership lists, registration forms, pamphlets, newsletters, clippings, and check stubs. These papers relate to SDS conventions and national councils, National Office staff and other intra-organizational matters, projects, chapters, and other organizations, 1962-1965. This subseries is arranged in seven sub-categories.

The convention and national council meeting papers, 1962-1965, contain correspondence, minutes, reports, position papers, and registration forms. These are concerned with various aspects of American radicalism: the student, civil rights, peace, and labor movements as well as intra-organizational concerns.

The correspondence refers to radical organizing, SDS matters, personal affairs, and the civil rights, labor, and anti-war movements.

The project files, 1963-1965, contain correspondence, leaflets, reports, literature requests, clippings, and newsletters. They refer to the SDS Bulletin, anti-South African Apartheid activities including SDS's Chase Manhattan sit-in, and anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.

There are correspondence, leaflets, newsletters, clippings, reports, and literature requests in the chapter files, that provide information on student activism throughout the U.S. and have in some cases an abundance of data on local issues.

Material pertaining to related groups includes correspondence, newsletters, clippings, leaflets, and reports. They detail SDS's interrelationships with other student and leftist groups.

The National Office's office records include a checking account, cash receipts journal, check stubs, literature requests, leaflets, membership lists, and miscellaneous writings, speeches, and reports.

National Conventions and Council Meetings

National Council, Ann Arbor, 1962 December

National Convention, Pine Hill, New York

General, 1963 May-July

America and the New Era, drafts and comments, 1963 June-July

National Council Meeting, Nyack, New York, 1963 June

National Council Meeting, Bloomington, Indiana, 1963 August-September

National Council Meeting, New York City, 1963 December
Note: Includes registration forms.

National Council Meeting, Ann Arbor, 1964 February-April

National Council Meeting, Nyack, New York, 1964 April-August

National Convention, Pine Hill, New York, 1964 June-July

National Council Meeting, Pine Hill, New York, 1964 June-July

National Council and Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1964 August-September

National Council Meeting, New York City, 1964 April-December

National Council Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1965 April

National Conference at Kewadin, Michigan

Correspondence and notes regarding arrangements, 1965 April-June

Attendance lists and registration forms, 1965 June

Working papers, 1965 May-June

General, 1965 June

LID and SDS, 1962 September-1965 September

Correspondence and Related Documents

Paul Booth, 1962-1965 February

George Brosi, 1964 September-1966 September

Robb Burlage, 1962 January-1964 August

ERAP, 1964 February-1965 February

General Intra-SDS, 1963 June-1964 September

General Intra-SDS, 1964 October-1965

Vernon Grizzard, 1964 August-1965 August

Tom Hayden, 1963 May-October

Steve Max, 1962-1963; undated

Ken McEldowney, 1964 October-1965 August

Mike Miller, 1964 September-1965 May

Paul Potter, 1964 August-1965 July

PREP, 1963 November-1965 March

Harold Taylor, 1963 February-1965 March

Lee Webb, 1964 June-1965 Spring

Steve Weissman, 1965 January-late summer, undated

Jim Williams , 1963 October-1965 August

General

1962 February-1964 December

1965 January-June

1965 July-August

Canada, 1964 March-1965 September

Foreign, 1963 September-1965 August

Projects

Bulletin
Note: Volumes 1-3 are available in the Historical Society's Library.

Correspondence, 1963 March-1965 September, undated

Art work, 1963 August-1965 August, undated

Discussion Bulletin, 1964 Spring

Conferences of other organizations, 1965 Summer

Free University

Correspondence, 1965 May-December

Local programs, 1965 Summer

Mailing lists, 1965

Reports and papers, 1965 Spring-June

Fundraising, 1963 Spring-1965 October

Mailings

National Office and National Council, 1963 February-1964 November, undated

Work-list

Volume 1, number 1-13, 1964 June-December

Volume 2, number 1-14, 1965 January-July

Related documents, 1963 February-1965 Summer, undated

Mailing lists, 1963 January-1965 Summer, undated

South Africa: Chase Manhattan Bank Sit-In

Correspondence, 1964 November-1965 August

Clippings, 1965 March-April

Preparations for the sit-in, 1965 January-June, undated

Trial of demonstrators, 1965 June-September

Vietnam - Anti-War Activity

Correspondence, United States

1963-1965 July

1965 August

Correspondence, foreign, 1965 January-December

Draft and draft resistance, 1965

March on Washington

Button and literature orders, 1965

Correspondence, 1965

Posters, memos, and press releases, 1965

Miscellaneous SDS anti-war activity, 1965

Pamphlets: Viet-Nam, 1965, undated

Press clippings: Viet-Nam, 1965, undated

Press releases: Viet-Nam, 1965, undated

Summer newsletter, 1965

Chapter Files

Alabama, Arizona, 1964-1965, undated

California

At large, 1963-1965, undated

Los Angeles, 1963-1965, undated

San Francisco region, 1965, undated

Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, 1964-1965, undated

Florida, 1963-1965, undated

Georgia, Idaho, 1964-1965, undated

Illinois

At Large, 1964-1965, undated

Chicago and University of Chicago, 1962-1965, undated

Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, 1963-1965, undated

Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, 1964-1965, undated

Massachusetts

At large, 1962-1965, undated

Boston, 1963-1965, undated

Michigan

Ann Arbor, 1963-1965, undated

At large, 1964-1965, undated

Michigan State, Wayne State, 1963-1965, undated

Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, 1964-1965, undated

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, 1963-1965, undated

New York

At large, 1962-1965, undated

New York City, 1962-1965, undated

New York Viewpoint, 1964-1965, undated

North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 1963-1965, undated

Pennsylvania

At large, 1963-1965, undated

Swarthmore, 1964-1965

Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, 1963-1965, undated

Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., 1963-1965, undated

Texas, 1963-1965, undated

Wisconsin, 1962-1963, undated

Related groups

American Friends Service Committee, 1962-1965, undated

Assembly of Unrepresented People, 1965, undated

Campus Americans for Democratic Action, Caucus for Effective Action, 1962-1965

Committee for Foreign Policy Alternatives, 1965

Committee to End the War in Viet-Nam: Chicago, Detroit, Madison, Milwaukee, Minnesota, New York, 1964-1965, undated

Congress of Federated Organizations, Congress of Racial Equality, 1964-1965

Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Du Bois Clubs of America, 1963-1965, undated

Free Speech Movement-Berkeley, 1964-1965, undated

International Union of Socialist Youth, 1964-1965, undated

Institute for Policy Studies, 1963-1965, undated

May 2nd Movement, 1964-1965

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964, undated

National Committee to Abolish HUAC, National Committee on Economic Action, 1963-1965, undated

National Guardian, 1964-1965

National Student Association (NSA)

Correspondence, 1964-1965

Congress, 1964

Contacts, 1964

Liberal Study Group

1962-1963, undated

1964, undated

1965, undated

National Student Christian Federation, 1965, undated

Northern Student Movement, 1962-1965, undated

Operation Freedom, Religion and Labor Council of America, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1963-1965

Southern Student Organizing Committee, Student Civil Liberties Coordinating Committee, 1964-1965, undated

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1963-1965, undated

Student Peace Union, Student Religious Liberals, 1961-1965

Student Union for Peace Action, Student Woodlawn Area Project, 1964-1965, undated

Studies on the Left, 1964, undated

Turn Toward Peace, U.S. Collegiate Press Service, U.S. Youth Council, 1962-1964, undated

Vietnam Day Committee, Viet-Report magazine, 1965

War Resistors' League, Young Christian Students, 1964-1965, undated

YMCA-YWCA, Young People's Socialist League, 1964, undated

Office Records

National Office financial report, 1965

Check stubs, 1963 October-1964 November

Check stubs, 1964 November-1965 May

Lists of literature orders, undated

Literature Requests 1963-1965 August, undated

March on Washington, 1963 August 28

Membership lists, undated

Miscellaneous writings, speeches, and reports, 1962-1965, undated

Subseries: 2B: The Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP)
Scope and Content Note: Subseries 2B contains 14 boxes of ERAP papers relating to meetings, publications, projects of national and local scope, office files, and related groups. The folder on ERAP meetings, 1964, has correspondence, minutes, and notes relating to intra-ERAP matters and community organizing. The ERAP publications, 1964-1965, contain questionnaires, reports, and work-lists which primarily deal with ERAP community projects and staff problems. The national ERAP projects, 1962-1965, include information on several conferences on poverty, fundraising, legal aid, institutes, newsletters, reports, and other miscellaneous documents. The office files have substantial quantities of correspondence pertaining to inquiries about SDS and ERAP as well as applications to join these two organizations. The files on related groups consist of correspondence, clippings, handbills, and reports; these files document the economic and political relationships between ERAP/SDS and these other organizations, joint conferences and projects, and other topics. There is also a folder of miscellaneous ERAP papers.

ERAP Executive Committee meetings, 1964, undated

ERAP publications, 1964-1965, undated

Correspondence

Intra-ERAP correspondence

Jeremy Brecher, 1964-1965, undated

Clark Kissinger, 1963-1964, undated

General, 1963-1964

General, 1965, undated

ERAP-National Office, 1963-1964 June

ERAP-National Office, 1964 July-1965

Other-ERAP, 1963-1965, undated

Projects

General

Community theater, 1964-1965

Conference on Community Movements and Economic Issues, Ann Arbor, 1964 April 10-12

Correspondence, 1964

Registration forms, 1964

Conference on Poverty and the Economy, Champaign, Illinois, May 1-3, 1964, 1963-1964

End to Poverty Week, Ann Arbor (April 20-27, 1964), 1964

Evaluation questionnaire, Chester, Pennsylvania project, 1964

Films, 1964-1965, undated

Fundraising

Tom Hayden-Ida Brown Defense Fund, 1964-1965

Individual solicitations, 1964, undated

Union solicitations, 1964-1965, undated

Foundation solicitations, 1964-1965, undated

ERAP Institute (June 6-11, 1964), 1964, undated

ERAP Institute, 1965, undated

Legal Aid, 1964-1965

Manuscript correspondence, 1964-1965, undated

Manuscripts, 1963-1964, undated

Mailing lists, undated

News service, 1965, undated

Newsletter and related documents, 1964-1965, undated

Poverty conferences, 1963-1964, undated

Public relations, publicity, publications, 1964-1965, undated

Radicals' Guide to Economics, 1964

Research, 1964-1965, undated

Work/Study, 1964-1965, undated

Local

California

Oakland, correspondence, 1965, undated

San Francisco

Correspondence, 1964-1965, undated

Miscellaneous, 1964, undated

Newsletter, 1964-1965, undated

Connecticut

New Haven, Conneticut, correspondence, 1965, undated

Illinois

Cairo, correspondence, 1964-1965

Newsletters, leaflets, 1964-1965, undated

Reports, 1965, undated

Chicago

Correspondence

Intra-ERAP and SDS, 1964

External, 1964

Advisory Committee papers, 1964-1965, undated

Clippings, 1965, undated

Leaflets and Posters

1964, undated

1965-1966, undated

Miscellaneous, undated

Newsletters, 1965-1967, undated

Office finances, 1964, undated

Projects

Consumer practices, films, fundraising, 1964-1966

Housing, miscellaneous, rent strike, reprints, staff, 1965, undated

Surveys, undated

Surveys, 1965, undated

Unemployment, 1964, undated

Unemployment, 1964-1965, undated

War on Poverty, 1965, undated

Welfare, 1965-1966, undated

Youth, 1965, undated

Related groups, undated

Reports and Prospectuses

1963-1964

1965-1966

Kentucky

Hazard

Correspondence, 1963-1965

Clippings, 1964

Hazard Conference (March 27-29, 1964)

Correspondence and working papers, 1964

Registration forms, 1964

Reports and prospectuses, 1964, undated

Louisville

Correspondence, 1964, undated

Clippings, 1964

Miscellaneous, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1964, undated

Maryland

Baltimore

Correspondence, 1964-1965, undated

Miscellaneous, undated

Newsletters and leaflets, 1964, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1964-1965, undated

Cedar Heights, correspondence, 1964-1965, undated

Michigan

Ypsilanti

Miscellaneous and preliminary interviews, 1964, undated

Voter registration, 1964

Massachusetts

Boston

Correspondence, 1963-1965

Miscellaneous, undated

Newsletters and leaflets, 1965, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1965, undated

New Jersey

Newark

Correspondence, 1964-1965, undated

Clippings, 1964-1965

Leaflets, undated

Miscellaneous, undated

Newsletter, undated

Related group: Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council, 1964, undated

Related group: Newark Committee for Full Employment, 1964, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1964-1965, undated

New Brunswick, correspondence, 1964-1965

Trenton

Correspondence, 1964, undated

Clippings, 1964, undated

Leaflets and newsletters, 1964, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1964, undated

New York

New York City, Alliance for Jobs or Income Now, 1964, undated

Ohio

Cleveland

Correspondence

Intra-ERAP and SDS, 1963-1965, undated

External, 1964-1965, undated

Cleveland Community Conference (February 15-17, 1965)

Correspondence, 1964-1965, undated

Papers, 1965, undated

Preparatory, 1965, undated

Transactions, 1965

Newsletters, 1964-1965

Office file, 1964, undated

Projects

Fundraising, 1964-1965, undated

Research, undated

Related groups: Citizens United for Adequate Welfare, 1964, undated

Related groups: Other, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1964, undated

Ontario, Canada

North Bay, correspondence, 1964, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1964, undated

Pennsylvania

Chester

Correspondence, 1964-1965

Clippings, 1964, undated

Miscellaneous, undated

Newsletters and leaflets, 1964, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1964, undated

Philadelphia

Correspondence, 1963-1964, undated

Leaflets, 1964, undated

Reports and prospectuses, 1963-1964, undated

Office Files

Applications

1963-1964 March

1964 April

1964 May

1964 June-July

1964 August-December

1965 January-February

1965 March

1965 April

1965 May 1-15

1965 May 16-30

1965 June

undated

Inquiries

1963-1964 March

1964 April

1964 May-August

1964 September-December

1965 January-February

1965 March-April

1965 May-June

1965 July-August

1965 September-December, undated

Related Groups

Alliance for Jobs or Income Now, American Friends Service Committee, 1963-1965, undated

Appalachian Conference, Citizen's Crusade for Poverty, 1964-1965, undated

Committee for Miners, 1963-1965, undated

Council of the Southern Mountains, International Association of Machinists, National Committee for Full Employment, 1963-1965, undated

Miscellaneous related groups, Northern Student Movement, 1964-1965, undated

Oberlin, Religion and Labor Council of America, 1964, undated

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1963-1965, undated

Student Union and Peace Action, 1964-1965, undated

United Auto Workers, 1963-1965

Miscellaneous ERAP materials, undated

Subseries: 2C: Peace Research and Education Project (PREP)
Scope and Content Note: The 4 boxes of PREP papers include letters, leaflets, manuscripts, a mailing list, newsletters, prospectuses, and reports. They pertain to Boston PREP; literature requests and inquiries; fundraising; publicity; the publishing of the PREP periodical, The New Era; the conversion of American industry to a peace-oriented economy; demonstrations against South African and Vietnam policies; and various related groups. Conspicuous among the manuscripts are: “Defense Workers and Disarmament” by Barry Bluestone; “The American Peace Movement, 1900-1962” by Philip Altbach, national chairman of the Student Peace Union; and “The War on Poverty: Notes on an Insurgent Response” by Rennie Davis, director of ERAP.

Executive and Temporary Action Committees, 1962-1965, undated

Correspondence

Intra-PREP

1962-1963 June

1963 July-December

1964 January-July

1964 August-October

1964 November-December

1965, undated

External

1962

1963 January-March

1963 April-June

1963 July-December

1964 January-February

1964 March-April

1964 May

1964 June

1964 July 1-15

1964 July 16-31

1964 August

1964 September

1964 October

1964 November

1964 December

1965 January-February

1965 March-August

undated

Boston Peace Research and Education Project (BPREP)

Correspondence

1964 January-July

1964 August-December

1965, undated

Financial reports, 1964

Leaflets, 1964, undated

Minutes and notes, undated

Projects, undated

Prospectuses, undated

Reports, 1964, undated

Office File

Information and literature requests, 1963-1965, undated

Projects

Fundraising, 1962-1965

The New Era

Correspondence, 1964, undated

Manuscripts, 1963-1964

Publishing material, undated

Newsletters, 1963-1965

Newsletter manuscripts, undated

Peace politics, 1962-1963, undated

Project proposals, 1962-1965

Publicity, 1963-1965, undated

South Africa, 1964-1965, undated

“Toward an Effective Peace Program on Campus,” 1964-1965, undated

Vietnam, 1964-1965, undated

Related Groups

End the Draft, 1964-1965, undated

Student Peace Union, 1964-1965

Student Union for Peace Action; Turn Toward Peace, 1962-1965

Miscellaneous, 1962-1964, undated

Subseries: 2D: Political Education Project (PEP)
Scope and Content Note: The half box of PEP papers contains correspondence, memos, minutes, leaflets, prospectuses, reports, and miscellany. They refer to conferences, the direction and role of PEP and SDS, fundraising, PEP's programs, and other topics.

Correspondence, 1964-1965, undated

Memos and leaflets, 1964-1965, undated

Minutes, reports, and prospectuses, 1964-1965

Miscellaneous, 1964

Series: 3: National Office, 1964 September-1970
Scope and Content Note

The 23 boxes of this series relate to the period in which SDS became increasingly militant and violence-oriented, and finally dissolved into factionalisn. These papers are organized into files of correspondence; national committees, conventions, and council meetings; National Office matters; special project and subjects; related groups; and miscellany. Much of the correspondence is from 1965 and relates to Paul Booth. A sizeable portion of the later correspondence relates to Bernardine Dohrn, who also apparently organized some of the project-subject files.

The national committees, conventions, and councils files, 1965-1968, contain correspondence, minutes, notes, and resolutions. There is a wide range in the extent to which meetings are documented, with some having ample records and others none at all.

The locality files, 1964-1970, contain letters, clippings, publications, leaflets, and reports; these often pertain to local controversies involving anti-war protests and civil liberties. Many files include applications for affiliation and chapter constitutions and reports, and some include assessments by the National Office as to their level of activity circa 1966.

The office files, 1965-1969, contain rosters of persons arrested during the Days of Rage, October 8-11, 1969. These trace the progress of court cases and list when and where persons were arrested. A card file contains names of contacts and chapters in states alphabetically between Massachusetts and Wyoming. Financial records include miscellaneous bank statements, check stubs, and budgets. The cash receipts journal records the names of persons contributing to SDS and the amounts received from them.

The project-subject file, 1964-1970, includes a wide range of material: correspondence, leaflets, clippings, manuscripts, reports, and miscellany. The manuscripts include “The Birth of a Movement: SDS from 1960 to 1965” by C. Clark Kissinger as well as many other articles on SDS and related subjects. One should note that correspondence and manuscripts concerning New Left Notes, SDS Bulletin, and Vietnam Bulletin are all located in the project-subject file. Materials on the National Lawyers' Guild and on women appear to have been collected by Bernardine Dohrn.

The reference files include draft counselling information; material on chemical and biological warfare; on the rights and treatment of political dissidents in the U.S.; and files on political and student activity in various nations and areas throughout the world. The related groups files, 1965-1969, have correspondence, leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, and clippings. The miscellany includes unidentified notes, unrelated leaflets, photos of an unknown GI's diary as well as numerous leaflets and pamphlets produced by SDS.

Subseries: Correspondence

1965 January-August

1965 September 1-15

1965 September 16-30

1965 October 1-15

1965 October 16-31

1965 November 1-15

1965 November 16-30

1965 December

1966 January-February

1966 March-December

1967 January-July

1967 August-December

1968 Janusry-September

1968 October

1968 November-December

1969-1970

undated

Subseries: National Committees, Conventions, and Councils

National Administrative Committee, 1965-1966, undated

National Conventions

1965-1966, undated

1967, undated

1968, undated

1968, undated (continued)

National Councils

September 7-9, 1965: minutes, 1965

December 1965: notes, 1965, undated

Ballots, 1966 February

April 1966: correspondence, minutes, notes, 1966, undated

March 28-31, 1967: resolutions and leaflets, 1967, undated

December 1967: notes, 1967, undated

1968-1969, undated

National Interim Committee, 1966-1968, undated

Subseries: Locality File

Midwest, New England, North Central, 1964-1969, undated

Southern, Southeastern, 1965-1966, undated

Southwestern, West, 1965-1968, undated

Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, undated

California

Bay Area--Long Beach, 1965-1969

Los Angeles, 1965-1968

North California Regional Office--San Fernando Valley State College, 1965-1968, undated

San Francisco Regional Office

Correspondence, 1965-1966

Miscellaneous, 1965, undated

San Francisco State College, 1968-1969, undated

Clippings, 1968-1969, undated

San Jose State College--Stanford University, 1965-1968

University of California, Berkeley--University of the Pacific, 1965-1969, undated

Canada, Toronto Region, 1968

Colorado, 1966-1969, undated

Connecticut, 1964-1968, undated

Delaware, District of Columbia, 1965-1969, undated

Florida, 1965-1968, undated

Georgia-Hawaii, 1968-1969, undated

Illinois

Chicago Region - Ill. State University at Normal, 1964-1969, undated

Lake Forest College - Roosevelt University, 1965-1969, undated

Southern Illinois - University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1965-1969, undated

Indiana, 1965-1968, undated

Iowa, 1965-1969, undated

Kansas, 1965-1969, undated

Kentucky, 1965-1969, undated

Louisiana, 1967-1968, undated

Maine-Maryland, 1965-1969, undated

Massachusetts

Amherst College - Boston Area, 1965-1968, undated

Boston University - Harvard and Radcliffe, 1965-1968, undated

MIT - Williams College, 1965-1969, undated

Michigan

Albion College - Michigan State, 1965-1969, undated

Oakland University - University of Michigan, 1965-1969, undated

Wayne State - Western Michigan University, 1965-1968, undated

Minnesota, Mississippi, 1965-1969, undated

Missouri, Montana, 1964-1968, undated

Nebraska, New Hampshire, 1965-1968, undated

New Jersey, New Mexico, 1965-1968, undated

New York

Adelphi College - Columbia University, 1966-1968, undated

Columbia University - Cornell, 1965-1968, undated

Cortland State College - New York City Regional Office, 1965-1969, undated

New York State Office - New York University, 1965-1968, undated

Niagara Regional Coordinating Committee - Queens College, 1965-1969, undated

Rockefeller University - State University of New York at Buffalo, 1965-1968, undated

State University at New Platz - Wagner College, 1965-1969, undated

North Carolina, 1965-1968, undated

Ohio

Antioch College - Kenyon College, 1965-1968, undated

Lakewood High School - Xavier College, 1965-1968, undated

Oklahoma, Oregon, 1964-1969, undated

Pennsylvania

Bucknell University - Penn State University, 1965-1968, undated

Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania, 1965-1969, undated

Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, 1965-1968, undated

Texas, Vermont, 1964-1968, undated

Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, 1964-1968, undated

Wisconsin

Lawrence College - University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, 1965-1968, undated

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1964-1969, undated

Unidentified

Subseries: Office Files

Arrest Rosters--Days of Rage, 1969 October, undated

Arrest Rosters--Days of Rage, 1969 October, undated (continued)

Card file, undated

Current literature inventory, 1967 September

Financial Records

Bank statements, budget, canceled checks, 1965-1966, 1968, undated

Cash receipts journal, 1965-1966

Check stubs, 1965-1966

Subseries: Project and Subject Files

Afro-American News Service, 1968, undated

Central Intelligence Agency, 1967, undated

The Chester Movement, undated

Chicano, undated

Civil Rights and Liberties, 1965-1968, undated

Community Action Project--New Brunswick, 1965

Conversion report, 1964-1965

Cuba Week, 1969

Delano grape strike, 1965-1966, undated

Democratic Party Convention, 1968, undated

Demonstrations, 1966-1969, undated

Draft resistance, 1965-1968, undated

Elections, 1968

Free Universities, 1965-1966, undated

G.I. papers, 1966-1969, undated

“Guns or Butter,” 1966

High schools, 1968-1969, undated

Intra-organizational, 1968, undated

Jobs or Income Now (JOIN), 1965-1967

Labor-miscellaneous, 1968, undated

Law Center memos, 1968, undated

Legal rap, 1968

Logbook (Bernardine Dohrn's), 1968

Mailing lists--student newspapers, undated

Manuscripts

1965-1970

undated

undated (continued)

Miscellaneous fragments, undated

National Action, 1969 October (Days of Rage); 1969 October-November

National Liberation Front conference (September 1968), Budapest, Hungary, 1968, undated

New Left Notes

Letters to the editor, 1966-1969, undated

Manuscripts and notes, 1966-1968, undated

Poverty and the poor, 1965-1966, undated

Progressive Labor Party, 1967, undated

Progressive Labor Party, critiques of, 1969, undated

Publication orders, 1969, undated

Radical Education Center (REC), undated

Radical Education Project (REP), 1966-1970, undated

SDS Bulletin

Correspondence, 1965-1966, undated

Camera-ready copy, 1965

Manuscripts, 1965, undated

SDS publications, 1965-1969, undated

Summer Work-In, camera-ready copy, undated

Teacher-Organizer School, undated

Technical printing information, 1965, undated

Texas legal conference, 1968, undated

Vietnam (including SDS National Vietnam Newsletter)

Correspondence

1965 August-September 1-15

1965 September 16-30

1965 October 1-15

1965 October 16-30

1965 November-1966

undated

Clippings, 1965-1966, undated

Leaflets and pamphlets, undated

Mailing list and file cards, undated

National Liberation Front literature

1968

1969-1970

undated

Vietnam Bulletin (N.O.), 1965

We Read the News Today, Rebellion Round-Up, and Liberation News, undated

Weathermen, 1969, undated

Women

Correspondence, articles, and pamphlets, 1967-1969, undated

Clippings, leaflets, and lists of names, 1968-1969, undated

Worklist

Mailing lists, 1965

Manuscripts, 1965

Worklist, 1965

Subseries: Reference Files

Chemical and biological warfare, 1967, undated

Conference on Legal Defense for Political Dissidents (December 12-14, 1968), Texas, 1968

Draft counseling, 1967-1968, undated

Foreign Countries

Africa, 1967-1968, undated

Dominican Republic, 1966, undated

Italy, 1968-1969

Japan, 1968, undated

Korea, 1967, undated

Latin America, 1968, undated

Middle East, 1968, undated

South Africa, 1967-1968, undated

House Un-American Activities Committee, 1966-1968, undated

Poems, 1968-1969, undated

Publishers' circulars and correspondence, 1964, 1967-1969, undated

University complicity, undated

World monetary system, undated

Subseries: Related Groups

American

American Committee for Solidarity with the Vietnamese People, American Friends Service Committee

American Society for Training and Development, Association for International Cooperation and Development, 1967, 1969

Avoid Vietnam in Latin America, undated

Black Panthers, 1968-1970, undated

Black Students' Alliance, Canadians for the NLF, undated

Catholic Peace Fellowship, 1965, 1969, undated

Chicago Area Draft Resistance, Committee for Fifth Avenue Peace Parade, 1965, 1968, undated

Committee for the Miners, Committee for Non-Violent Action, 1965, undated

Committee of Returned Volunteers, Common Sense Letter, 1965, 1969, undated

Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1965

Draft Resistance - Seattle, 1969, undated

G.I. Civil Liberties Defense Committee, Hemisphere Conference Against the War in Vietnam, 1968-1969

Houston Committee to End the War in Vietnam, International Committee to Release Eldridge Cleaver, 1967, undated

Intra-University Committee for Debate on Foreign Policy, Iranian Students Association, 1966-1968

John Brown Party, Koinonia Partners, 1969

League for Industrial Democracy, Leviathan, 1965, 1968

Liberation News Service, Llano Cooperative Colony, undated

Madison Committee to End the War in Vietnam, May 2nd Movement, 1965

Minnesota Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Movement for a Democratic Society, 1965, 1967, undated

National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, National Committee to Abolish HUAC, 1966-1967, undated

National Conference for New Politics, 1965-1966

National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1965, undated

National Lawyers' Guild

1966-1967

1968

Undated

National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, National Organizing Committee, 1968-1960, undated

National Service Program, Newark Projects, 1965-1966, undated

Newsreel, New University Conference, 1968, undated

North American Congress on Latin America, No Tax for War Committee, 1967, undated

People Against Racism, People Who Care, 1969, undated

Poverty/Rights Action Center, 1966-1967, undated

Radical Organizing Committee, Research Organizing Cooperative, undated

Resistance Inside the Army, Right-Wing and Libertarian, 1969, undated

Rochester Free School, SANE, 1965, 1968-1969, undated

Southern Conference Educational Fund, Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1968, undated

Steering Committee Against Repression, Students Against Fascism, 1968-1969, undated

Student Mobilization Committee, Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee, 1966-1967, undated

Student Health Organization, Teachers for a Democratic Society, 1967, undated

University Christian Movement in New England, Venceremos Brigade, 1968-1969

Vietnam Day Committee, Vietnam Summer Meeting, 1965, 1967

Voters for Peace, War Resisters League, 1965-1966

W.E.B. DuBois Clubs, 1966, undated

White Panthers, Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union, 1967, 1969, undated

Women Strike for Peace, Young Socialist Alliance, 1965

Youth International Party, 1970

Foreign

Australia, 1967-1968, undated

Austria: International Union of Socialist Youth, 1965-1967

Canada

American Deserters' Committee, 1968, undated

Canadian Union of Students, 1967, undated

Our Generation, Praxis, Simon Fraser University, 1968

Cuba: Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1968

Germany

Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund, 1966-1969, undated

Miscellaneous, 1965, 1968, undated

Greece: United Greek Appeal, undated

Hungary: World Federation of Democratic Youth, 1968, undated

Ireland: Irish Student Movement, 1968

Italy, 1968

Japan

Beheinen, 1966-1968, undated

Japan Council Against A and H Bombs, 1968

International Communist League, 1968-1969, undated

League of Socialist Youth (Liberation Faction), 1968

Zengakuran, 1967-1969, undated

Miscellaneous, 1968, undated

Mexico, 1968-1969, undated

Micronesia, undated

Mozambique: Frelimo, undated

The Netherlands: Sugar Cane Campaign, 1969

Puerto Rico, 1967-1968, undated

Southwest Africa: Southwest Africa People's Organization, undated

Sweden, 1968-1969, undated

United Kingdom, 1967-1969, undated

Vietnam, 1968-1969, undated

Yugoslavia, 1968

Miscellaneous

Leaflets, 1965-1968, undated

Notes, undated

Photographs of a GI's Vietnam diary, undated

SDS leaflets, 1964-1969, undated

SDS pamphlets, 1965, undated

Series: 4: Tape Recordings

Boston SDS conference on university reform, 1962 December 1-7

Panel, 1962 December 2
Scope and Content Note: Peter Countryman, Executive Secretary of the Northern Student Movement (NSM), speaks regarding the relationship of the student movement to the black civil rights movement. Discussion follows. Approximate running time: 30 minutes.

Panel (continued); and Tom Hayden
Scope and Content Note: Continued question and answer period. Then Tom Hayden discusses how university reform is important to a general radical political movement. Approximate running time: 30 minutes.

Tom Hayden (continued); Paul Brest; Todd Gitlin
Scope and Content Note: Tom Hayden continues discussion of university reform. Then Paul Brest, a law student, outlines activities of HUAC and maintains that radical groups, by excluding admitted communists, only contribute to undermining of civil liberties. Todd Gitlin follows and speaks on how to build a base for and attract people to the peace movement. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

Steve [Max?]
Scope and Content Note: Speaks on the realignment of traditional Democratic Party ranks and how radicals can use this for their own advantage. He also reviews programs of various leftist organizations and the current national political situation. Approximate running time: 30 minutes; thereafter the reel continues with opera excerpts.

“New Left Day” at the June 1963 SDS National Convention, Pine Hill, New York

Hayden speaks on SDS
Scope and Content Note: In a tape apparently made for prospective SDS members and others interested in the organization, Tom Hayden speaks on the history of SDS, the role of the peace and civil rights movements, the scope of the New Left, and the Student League for Industrial Democracy. Approximate running time: 25 minutes.

Hayden (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Hayden continues his history of SDS, and tape runs out before he finishes. Approximate running time: 25 minutes.

Tom Hayden concludes unidentified, undated speech

NSM Conference, 1964

Harlem Action Group; folk songs; and Paul Goodman
Scope and Content Note: After Hayden's talk, the rest of this track concerns the NSM conference. The Vice President of Harlem Action Group is interviewed regarding on-going rent strike, 1963-1964. Group singing of folk songs. Paul Goodman questions the goals of tutorial programs for ghetto residents in which the NSM is involved, and criticizes the entire educational system; his controversial remarks spark a lively discussion. Approximate running time (including Hayden): 60 minutes.

Goodman (continued); Block; Spike
Scope and Content Note: Paul Goodman discussion continues. NSM leader Steve Block speaks about the development, philosophy, and present programs of the NSM. Dr. Spike, Director of the Council of Churches' Commission on Race and Religion, speaks about the Commission's goals and activities. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

Spike (continued); folk songs; Americus demonstration and racial discussion
Scope and Content Note: Dr. Spike concludes. Alan Rebeque conducts group singing of folk songs. People from Americus, Georgia, are interviewed regarding instances of police brutality and harassment at a civil rights demonstration in Americus on September 9, 1963; there is also a statement on the demonstration from Julian Bond, head of SNCC's Communications Division. Group discusses the philosophy and activities of NSM, stressing relationship between white, middle class students and the black community. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

Discussion (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of what sorts of civil rights activities college students could profitably engage in. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

Goodman discussion (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Paul Goodman discussion continues, but is sometimes hard to hear because of baby crying. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

Goodman discussion (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Paul Goodman discussion continues. Approximate running time: 2 minutes.

June 1964 SDS National Convention, Pine Hill, New York

Gitlin, Aronowitz, and Flacks
Scope and Content Note: Todd Gitlin, SDS president, introduces, Stanley Aronowitz and Dick Flacks, who speak on the future of the New Left and analyze the role of radical groups in American society . The sound frequently fades into inaudibility. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

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Gitlin, Horton, Melman
Scope and Content Note: Todd Gitlin, introduces a panel discussion of “The Radical Heritage.” The speech of Don West, a professor at the Un iversity of Maryland, is not recorded due to a mechanical failure of the recorder. Myles Horton of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee describes the failure of past radical movements and points to the critical role of the black civil rights movement in providing a focal point for the New Left. Seymour Melman, a professor at Columbia University, discusses the role of the radical in providing viable alternatives to Establishment policies and considers how to convert industry to peace-time uses. A question and answer period follows in which the validity of the above speakers' assumptions and conclusions is weighed. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Individual speakers summarize position papers that they hope the convention will adopt
Scope and Content Note: The speakers include Dick Flacks, Larry Gordon, Steve Max, Don McKelvey, Paul Potter, and Jim Williams. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

March on Washington, April 17, 1965, and SDS National Council Meeting, 1965 April 17-19
Scope and Content Note: This series of tapes concerns the April 17, 1965 March on Washington and the April 17-19, 1965 SDS National Council meeting. An unidentified SDS-er re-recorded them and occasionally provides explanatory information. He recorded the council meeting before the march, and this order has been retained.

Vietnam workshop at council meeting, 1965 April 17 or 18
Scope and Content Note: The tape starts in the middle of a discussion of anti-war strategy, in which the participants consider the formulation of a press release, civil disobedience, organizing techniques, and the role of SDS. Much of this tape is inaudible due to background noises. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Vietnam workshop discussion (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Vietnam workshop (continued); and plenary session of council meeting, 1965 April 18
Scope and Content Note: A small amount of further discussion of anti-war strategy is followed by a recording of the beginning of a plenary session of the National Council. Various workshop proposals are presented to the session, including the relocation of the SDS National Office, a trip by U.S. students to North Vietnam, free universities, and the press release of the Vietnam workshop. Most of the debate concerns this statement to the press and how it will affect the direction of SDS. Occasionally background noises make this tape difficult to hear. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Plenary session (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Speakers include George Brosi, Clark Kissinger, and Paul Booth. The discussion mainly concerns anti-war activities and the direction of SDS. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Plenary session (continued), 1965 April 18-19
Scope and Content Note: More discussion of anti-war strategy; speakers include George Brosi, Todd Gitlin, Steve Max, and Clark Kissinger. An unidentified SDS-er interviews Larry Gluckman, a new SDS member, regarding his reasons for joining SDS. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Plenary session (continued)
Scope and Content Note: The discussion centers on the following topics: the organization of regional offices, the relocation of the SDS National Office, democracy within SDS, and if SDS members should drop out of school. Speakers include Clark Kissinger, Paul Potter, and Paul Booth. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

National Council meeting (continued), 1965 April 19
Scope and Content Note: Discussed are the relocation of the National Office, a credentials report, a PREP report, and the hiring of Carl Oglesby to do research. Speakers include Paul Booth, Clark Kissinger, Todd Gitlin, Carl Oglesby, and Lee Webb. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

National Council meeting (continued)
Scope and Content Note: More debate on hiring Carl Oglesby to do research and on the setting up of a Research, Information, and Publication Project (RIP). There is also discussion of the report of the workshop on the free university. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Vietnam workshop (continued), 1965 April 18
Scope and Content Note: This tape records the discussion until 8 p.m., when the person recording the session left. Topics considered include the free university and goals of university reform, a U.S. student trip to North Vietnam, and education within SDS. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

National Council meeting (continued), 1965 April 19
Scope and Content Note: On the remainder of the tape (about half), an unidentified person recorded unidentified amateurs, mainly children, singing American and German folksongs; these songs were recorded to help others teach them. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Folksinging (continued); and Vietnam workshop (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Folksinging, then the person re-recording these tapes included discussion of anti-war strategy from the April 18, 1965 Vietnam workshop which he forgot to record earlier. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Vietnam workshop (continued), 1965 April 18
Scope and Content Note: Vietnam workshop continues with debate on Vietnam strategy, thrust of SDS activities for summer 1965, and civil rights community organizing. This is also the beginning of the re-recording of the March on Washington, April 17, 1965. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

March on Washington, 1965 April 17
Scope and Content Note: This is also the beginning of the re-recording of the March on Washington, April 17, 1965. There are interviews with folksinger Joan Baez, Mrs. Tristan Coffin (whose husband wrote The Armed Society), an unidentified member of Women Strike for Peace, and other demonstrators regarding the reasons for their participation in the march. Background noises of the march and of the folksinging at the Sylvan Theatre at the base of the Washington Monument sometimes drown out the interviews. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

March on Washington (continued)
Scope and Content Note: More folksinging and speeches at the Sylvan Theatre, including the following speakers: Mel Fredericks, folksinger Pete Seeger, SNCC leader Robert Parris, journalist I.F. Stone, Yale history professor Staughton Lynd, and Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska). Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

March on Washington (continued)
Scope and Content Note: More speeches and folksinging at the Sylvan Theatre, including the remainder of Senator Gruening's speech as well as the presentation of folksinger Judy Collins, Mrs. Carol King's reading of a statement of Cleveland community project worker Mrs. Ira Pierce, and remarks of SDS president Paul Potter and of folksinger Joan Baez. This is followed by sounds of the marchers moving toward the Congress. The tape concludes with a recording of a meeting held to plan acts of civil disobedience in protest against the war; these acts are planned for the weekend. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Meeting on acts of civil disobedience (continued); and locality meeting
Scope and Content Note: Meeting on acts of civil disobedience (continued) then a locality meeting at the SDS office where spring and summer anti-war strategy is discussed. Approximate running time: 65 minutes.

Electoral Campaign Institute, 1966 June 20-22
Scope and Content Note: These tapes concern the Electoral Campaign Institute held by the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP), June 20-22, 1966. The purpose of this institute was to train election organizers. Most of those in attendance were SDS members who had attended an SDS National Convention the week before. Dan Rothenburg, an NCNP organizer, gives the introductions.

Robert Scheer, June 21, 1966
Scope and Content Note: Robert Scheer, a radical-liberal from California, discusses his 1966 election campaign in the 7th Congressional District and the political situation in the Berkeley-Oakland area. A question and answer period follows. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

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Discussion of Scheer campaign (continued); and Eric Mann
Scope and Content Note: Scheer campaign discussion. Then Eric Mann, a leader of SDS's Newark (New Jersey) Community Union Project (NCUP), analyzes community organizing and electoral politics in Newark. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

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Mann, 1966 June 21 (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Newark politics discussion continues. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Schneider, 1966 June 22
Scope and Content Note: Michael Schneider, director of the 6th Congressional District (California) Democratic Council, speaks on California politics and the 1964 Willie Brown congressional campaign. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

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Schneider (continued)
Scope and Content Note: Schneider speech followed by a question and answer period, June 22, 1966. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

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John Mayer, 1966 June 20
Scope and Content Note: John Mayer [spelling uncertain], Massachusetts SDS-er, discusses the 1966 Thomas Adams Senatorial campaign. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Clark Kissinger, 1966 June 22
Scope and Content Note: Clark Kissinger, former SDS National Secretary and aldermanic candidate in Chicago's 49th District, speaks regarding the Daley machine and community and election organizing in Chicago. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.

Kissinger (continued); and Michigan discussion
Scope and Content Note: Clark Kissinger's speech, followed by a group discussion of the benefits and failures of the NCNP's Electoral Campaign Institute. Then an unidentified speaker talks regarding Michigan politics and the Kavanaugh [spelling uncertain] Senatorial campaign. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

Dan Rothenburg, an NCNP organizer, discusses the conference so far - its purposes, membership, and success
Scope and Content Note: Approximate running time: 30 minutes.

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The Pragmatic Warriors
Scope and Content Note: A documentary tape recording prepared by SDS's Radical Education Project from selected television news reports dating from September 1965 to August 1966 regarding the war in Vietnam, especially its impact on the Americans taking part in it and on the Vietnamese people. A list of sources for this tape follows this record of tapes in the collection. Approximate running time: 50 minutes.

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SDS National Convention, after 1966
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of whether members of the Communist or Progressive Labor Parties should be excluded from SDS and of factionalism within SDS. Approximate running time: 90 minutes (Side 1); 3 minutes (Side 2).

Telephone conversation, 1968, between two unidentified SDS-ers
Scope and Content Note: One in the Chicago National Office and one in the California Regional Office, in which organizational and personal matters are candidly discussed. It shows how SDS members related to one another and tried to place personal problems in a total political context. Approximate running time: 8 minutes.

Telephone conversation
Scope and Content Note: Probably made between August 7-11, 1968, between Mike Klonsky of the Chicago National Office and an unidentified Los Angeles civil rights worker regarding the atmosphere in the Los Angeles black community and police activity following a Black Panther-police shoot-out and a ghetto riot. There is noise throughout this tape, and the tape runs out before the conversation ends. Approximate running time: 8 minutes.