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Article: Democracy is in the streets: from Port Huron to the siege of Chicago.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- September 1, 1987
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Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago.
James Miller. Simon & Schuster, $19.95. Students for a Democratic Society, whose name is curiously absent from the title of this history of its founding, today stimulates the urge to debunk. It's hard to see why it deserves the immense respect it's accorded from both left and right as a potent political force. What did SDS do, exactly? It was only a minor participant in the civil rights movement, which stands as the great example in modern American history of the power of nonviolent direct action. Its main activity (aside from a lot of theorizing) was a series of community organizing ...
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