SDS National Council Meeting, September 1963. Tom Hayden stands at far left. [Photo by C. Clark Kissinger] * “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. . . . First,...
Todd Gitlin
Tom Hayden, SDS and SNCC Alums:
Todd Gitlin on Port Huron Statement’s 50th Anniversary
Early ’60s idealism: The mimeographed mission statement of a new generation [ Part 1 of a 2-part series | also @ DailyKos ] “The genius of the Port Huron Statement, as it was structured, was placing its declaration of values up front. The movement would not be guided...