Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.), Penn State Chapter records, 1966-1967.

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.), Penn State Chapter records, 1966-1967.

The records from the Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) Penn State Chapter contain correspondence between the group and Penn State as well as between the chapter and the national organization. The collection also contains leaflets, pamphlets, drafts, reports, and papers by local and national SDS members.

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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...

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