Student strike, 1969 : general file.

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Student strike, 1969 : general file.

The collection documents the both sides of the conflict and the student unrest of April 1969. A voluminous amount of paper produced by both sides includes posters, broadsides, flyers, press releases, official statements and committee reports, student and administrative publications, newspaper clippings and other printed and primarily ephemeral material.

8 boxes (ca. 3 cubic feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8187369

Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Harvard University

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