History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1999 short lesson, about 20 seconds
SDS and Port Huron
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The idea
Students for a Democratic Society, organised in nineteen sixty, adopted the Port Huron Statement in nineteen sixty-two, written by Tom Hayden and committed to fighting economic inequality and discrimination.
In practice
Five dozen students at a lakeside camp near Port Huron, Michigan, as Digital History describes.
Where people slip
Digital History calls the statement one of the pivotal political documents of the decade.
Your place on the trail
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