Unsolicited Correspondence Files, 1970–1970

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Unsolicited Correspondence Files, 1970–1970

1970

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This series mainly consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence. Also included are biographical sketches and resumes, newspaper and magazine clippings, organizational charts, papers, photographs, reports, and signature cards, among other records. Most of the records relate to the activities and findings of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (PCCU). Many of the records discuss individuals' views and opinions, both positive and negative, of the activities and findings of the PCCU and particular PCCU members; offers to assist the PCCU in its work; offers to testify before the PCCU; background information on campus unrest; potential causes of campus unrest and student protest; advice and suggestions for further PCCU investigations; and proposed solutions to campus unrest. Particular topics mentioned include, but are not limited to, academic funding, Communism, drugs, freedom of expression, law enforcement, the National Guard, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other student groups, university discipline, and the Vietnam War. Some of the records which are arranged by subject and state are selected copies of records arranged by last name.

3 linear feet, 11 linear inches

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...