Students for a Democratic Society

American  

noun

1. SDS.

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Example Sentences

Similar tactics were used against the Ku Klux Klan, Students for a Democratic Society, and Black Power groups.

From Slate

There were arrests and students were suspended after a confrontation with police Monday and the Students for a Democratic Society organization also was suspended, the university said.

From Seattle Times

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, though not myself a student, I became a member of Students for a Democratic Society, better known in those years as SDS.

From Salon

Taking up the cause of young radicals nationwide, despite the fact that he was a decade older than many of them, he eventually became a vocal supporter of Students for a Democratic Society, an antiwar activist organization with chapters on college campuses around the country, and one of the original members of the militant S.D.S. faction that came to be known as the Weathermen.

From New York Times

He marched against the Iraq war and spun up a new chapter of Students for a Democratic Society when he got to college at the University of Maryland.

From Los Angeles Times