Students for a Democratic Society

noun

1. SDS.

Example Sentences

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

From Slate

“A lot of people were rolling around unmoored, finding a reason to believe there was a political or conspiratorial explanation for their inner upheaval and concluding if they could only act on their impulse, they could save the world,” said Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and a former leader of the Students for a Democratic Society whose books include “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage.”

From Los Angeles Times

Students heard dueling orations that denounced the Nixon administration and Students for a Democratic Society.

From New York Times

Mark Rudd, president of the Students for a Democratic Society who led the 1968 Hamilton Hall occupation, recalled to NPR in 2010 how another SDS student leader burned 10 years of research papers in the Hamilton Hall office of a faculty member who had annoyed him by trying to mediate with students.

From Seattle Times

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