Wednesday, April 26, 2006
SDS and the struggles of the 1960s
GEOFF BAILEY tells the history of Students for a Democratic Society, the organization came to symbolize the explosion of dissent and protest on college campuses during the 1960s.
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Many SDS activists had become disillusioned by the Democratic Party’s repeated betrayals of the civil rights movement in the South. But Johnson was running against the right-wing lunatic Barry Goldwater, who was infamous for calling for the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Johnson, running as a “peace candidate,” seemed to be the “lesser of two evils.” SDS adopted the ambiguous slogan, “Half the Way with LBJ.”
In November, Johnson was elected president. In January, he began aerial bombing and a massive military build-up in Vietnam.
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