The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society
Statement
By: Tom Hayden and Students for a Democratic Society
Date: June 1962
Source: Hayden, Tom, and Students for a Democratic Society. The Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society. New York: Students for a Democratic Society, 1962. Available online at http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html (accessed April 2, 2003).
About the Author: Tom Hayden (1939–), born in Royal Oak, Michigan, is one of the best-known student radicals of the 1960s. He was the cofounder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In the 1980s, Hayden decided to change the United States from within the political system. In 1982, he was elected to the California Assembly. Ten years later, he was elected to the state senate. He served until 1999, when he had to step down because of the...
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