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
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