"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
SDS fractured by 1969 over
- Acheck_circle
Splits between Weatherman radicals and other factions
- B
Acceptance of corporate sponsorship
- C
Disagreement with Cesar Chavez
- D
Conversion to the Republican Party
Explanation
The 1969 SDS convention saw the Weather Underground splinter, advocating armed struggle while other factions disintegrated.