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What part did SDS have in the civil rights movement!? I've been mostly finding things about their involvement with the Vietnam war, but not much on the civil rights movement!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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SDS was the organizational high point for student radicalism in the United States and has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse!. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current national student activist groups!. Though various organizations have been formed in subsequent years as proposed national networks for left-wing student organizing, none has approached the scale of SDS, and most have lasted a few years at best!.


Most activity was oriented toward civil rights issues and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) played a key role in inspiring SDS!.Www@QuestionHome@Com