SDS: A Decade of Resistance

The term 'SDS' refers to a social organization in the US in the 1960s, which full name was 'Students for a Democratic Society'. Try to guess some facts about this organization.

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The forerunner of the SDS	Student League for Industrial Democracy
Another student organization which helped to establish SDS	Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
The most printed and famous paper of SDS, which marked the official beginning of the organization: The ____ _____ Statement	Port Huron
Main author of this statement	Tom Hayden
The year when this statement was announced	1962
The university in which the first SDS chapter was established	University of Michigan
The political power that SDS stands for: The New ____	Left
The project which SDSers carried out to help the poor, jobless or colored people in 1963	Economic Research & Action Project
Name of the project in Chicago	Job or Income Now
The movement which won fame for SDS in 1964: Berkeley ____ ______ Movement	Free Speech
A kind of action during which students and university teachers gather around and argue about political issues	Teach-in
City where a 25000-people anti-Vietnam war demonstration took place in April 17, 1965	Washington DC
City where the National Office of SDS was moved to in 1965	Chicago
A faction that emerged within the organization in 1965: The _______ Power	Prairie
The program they started to gather information, do publications and bridge the gaps among the chapters in 1965	Research, Information & Publication
Name of the weekly newspaper they began to issue in 1966	New Left Notes
Movement happened in numerous universities in 1966: Anti-____ Movement	Rank
SDSers helped students who didn't want to go to fight in Vietnam to apply to become this	Conscientious Objector
Large-scale anti-war movement that happened in October, 1967: March on the ________	Pentagon
SDSers decided to cancel this position in National Office in 1967	National President
The university in which students protested against the university's punishment against leaders of this university's SDS chapter in spring, 1968	Columbia University
FBI created a new section in this program in 1968 in order to monitor student leaders illegally	Counter-Intelligence Program
A small group established by the end of 1968 to 'start a revolution'	Revolutionary Youth Movement
SDS cooperated with this radical organization of black people from 1967 to 1969	Black Panther Party
The organization that largely caused the split of SDS in 1969	Progressive Labor Party
This group theoretically inherited the SDS after the split	The Weathermen
The name of the group was originated from a lyric in this singer's song	Bob Dylan
The female leader of this group	Bernardin Dohrn
They caused an explosion in this part of New York City in March, 1970	Greenwich Village
They officially changed their organization name into this in late 1970	Weather Underground Organization