"We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. The search for a truly democratic alternative is fundamentally important to us. We seek a participatory democracy in which the individual shares in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life." — Port Huron Statement, SDS, 1962
The Port Huron Statement helped launch which movement?
- A
The Old Right of Robert Taft
- B
The Beats of the 1950s
- Ccheck_circle
The New Left and student activism of the 1960s
- D
The Goldwater conservative movement
Explanation
SDS's 1962 manifesto inspired campus activism on civil rights, free speech, and Vietnam, defining the New Left.