Stuart Gedal Columbia University 1968 Strike Collection, 1957-2003 [Bulk Dates: 1966-1975]

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Series III: Students for a Democractic Society (SDS), 1965-1969

This series is divided into two sub-series of SDS materials. Series III.1: SDS National and Regional Materials includes original copies of the Port Huron Statement (founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society) and the SDS constitution. It also features agendas and discussion papers from SDS national conferences and NY Regional SDS meetings attended by Columbia student activists. Series III.2: Radical Education Project (REP) contains readings and pamphlets created and distributed as part of the Radical Education Project (REP). REP was set up to get people like Gedal into the SDS fold.

Materials were re-housed from individual sleeves in binders and the original order provided by Gedal was maintained as closely as possible.


Sub-Series III.1: SDS National and Regional Materials, 1965-1969



Box 8 Folder 17 SDS Founding Documents, 1966-1967

includes the Port Huron statement and the SDS national constitution


Box 8 Folder 18 "The New Radicals and 'Participatory Democracy' by Staughton Lynd, 1965


Box 8 Folder 19 "Youth Will Organize for Freedom" by Les Coleman, 1968


Box 8 Folder 20 "Vietnam" pamphlet by SDS, 1968


Box 8 Folder 21 "Who Controls Vietnam?" by Wilfred Burchett, 1968


Box 8 Folder 22 "U.S. Imperialism" by David Gilbert and David Loud, 1968


Box 8 Folder 23 "High School Reform: Toward a Student Movement" by Mark Kleinman, 1965


Box 8 Folder 24 "Consumption: Domestic Imperialism" by David Gilbert, 1968


Box 8 Folder 25 "Automation and the Abolition of the Market" by Edward J. Nell, 1968


Box 8 Folder 26 "A Radical Critique of the New York City School Decentralization Plans" by Francine Lerner and Adrienne Yurick, 1968


Box 8 Folder 27 "Welfare: The Exterminating Angel, A Radical View", ca. 1968


Box 8 Folder 28 "Break Out and Do It Now!" by Mike James, 1968


Box 8 Folder 29 "United States 1967: High Tide of Black Resistance" by James Forman, 1969


Box 8 Folder 30 "Liberation Will Come From a Black Thing" by James Forman, 1967


Box 8 Folder 31 "Columbia" by Mark Rudd, 1969


Box 8 Folder 32 "Elections" pamphlet by SDS, 1968


Box 8 Folder 33 "Cuba: a History 1868-1959", 1968

SDS pamphlet


Box 8 Folder 34 "Cuba vs. US Imperialism" by Edward Boorstein, ca. 1969


Box 8 Folder 35 "SDS Work-In 1968: Towards a Worker-Student Alliance", 1969


Box 8 Folder 36 "A Class Analysis of the Radical Student Movement" by Fred Gordon, ca. 1969


Box 8 Folder 37 The Firing Line - Uptown's Community Newspaper, 1968 January 16

Special National Committee Union issue


Box 8 Folder 38 "Don't Mourn - Organize!", 1968 May

published by the Movement Press, printed by SDS


Box 8 Folder 39 SDS Conference Schedules and Proposals, 1968-1969



Box 9 Folder 1 "On Strike - Power to the People - Shut It Down", 1968-1969

San Francisco State Strike Committee


Box 9 Folder 2 New York SDS Regional Newsletter #2, 1969 January 10


Box 9 Folder 3 New York Regional SDS Fliers, 1968-1969


Box 9 Folder 4 The Foreign Policy Association: 50 Years of Successful Imperialsim, 1960s

published and distributed by NY Regional SDS


Box 9 Folder 5 CAW!: Magazine of Students for a Democratic Society, 1968

two issues and a cover letter


Box 9 Folder 6 New York University (NYU) SDS Publications, 1968


Box 9 Folder 7 Serve the People: A SDS Publication, 1968

Fordham University SDS


Sub-Series III.2: Radical Education Project (REP), 1960-1969


Box 9 Folder 8 Selective Service readings, 1967


Box 9 Folder 9 Latin America readings, 1963-1966


Box 9 Folder 10 "Stock Ownership and the Control of Corporations" by Don Villarejo, 1961-1962


Box 9 Folder 11 "The Decline of American Radicalism in the Twentieth Century" by Gabriel Kolko, 1966


Box 9 Folder 12 "S.M. Lipset: Social Scientist of the Smooth Society" by James Jacobs, 1968


Box 9 Folder 13 "Historians and the New Deal" by Brad Wiley, ca. 1968


Box 9 Folder 14 "High School Reform: Toward a Student Movement" by Mark Kleinman, 1969


Box 9 Folder 15 "The Position and Progress of BLACK AMERICA: Some Pertient Statistics" by Thomas F. Mayer, 1967


Box 9 Folder 16 "The Subversion of Collective Bargaining" by Daniel Bell, 1960


Box 9 Folder 17 "The Great First Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-1937 and How Industrial Unionism was Won" by Walter Linder, 1967


Box 9 Folder 18 "White Blindspot" by Noel Ingatin AND "Can White Radicals be Radicalized" by Ted Allen, ca. 1967


Box 9 Folder 19 "Roadblock to Revolution: A Radical Critique of the Progressive Labor Party" by Edward Greer and Charles Lengram, 1969


Box 9 Folder 20 SDS Goes to Work Again, REP Topical Literature Packet #2, 1967-1968


Box 9 Folder 21 "SDS Work-In 1968: Towards a Worker-Student Alliance", 1968


Box 9 Folder 22 Radicals in the Professions Newsletter (vol. 1, no. 10), 1968 November-December

published by REP


Box 9 Folder 23 "The Universities and the Ruling Class: How Wealth Puts Knowledge in its Pocket" by David Horowitz, 1969