Joseph Dumbacher Papers, 1962-1966

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...

United States National Student Association

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The National Student Association was founded in 1947 as a confederation of student governments across the nation, united for the purpose of improving education. It advocated federal aid for education, student publications without censorship and it took a stand against discrimination. Smith College students began affiliation with the organization the year it was created. In 1978 it merged with the National Student Lobby, forming the United States Student Association....

Dumbacher, Joseph

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Circuit Riders, Inc.

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Circuit Riders, Inc. was an organization that formed within the Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio in the mid-20th century with the pupose of spreading the gospel of Christ and opposing all "anti-American" teachings within the church. A specific early goal was to remove the Methodist Federation for Social Action from the national church organization. During the late 1950s and 1960s, the focus of the organization expanded to include the investigation of socialist and communist infiltration into...