American Decades
"Now is the Time of the Furnaces, And Only Light Should be Seen"
Flyers
By: Kent State Students for a Democratic Society
Date: April 1969
Source: Kent State Students for a Democratic Society. "Now is the Time of the Furnaces, And Only Light Should be Seen." Michigan State Special Collections, Students for Democratic Society ARVF.
About the Organization: The Kent State Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was part of the larger SDS, a radical student movement across the United States. Mark Rudd, the president of the Columbia University SDS, visited the Kent State University campus in 1968. Soon after Rudd's visit, the chapter joined with other militant groups on campus to stage protests. Kent State's SDS became more violent than many chapters due to the affiliation with leaders who later became part of the Weathermen.
Introduction
Students for a Democratic Society reorganized in 1962 when leaders met in Port Huron, Michigan....
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1970's Education Primary Sources
- "Now is the Time of the Furnaces, And Only Light Should be Seen"
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- "Rethinking Black History"
- "The Joy of Learning—In the Open Corridor"
- "Busing—The Supreme Court Goes North"
- Writing Without Teachers
- College Opportunity Act of 1978
- "Open Admissions and Equal Access: A Study of Ethnic Groups in the City University of New York"
- "Introduction: The First Decade of Women's Studies"
- "An Interview on Title IX with Shirley Chisholm, Holly Knox, Leslie R. Wolfe, Cynthia G. Brown, and Mary Kaaren Jolly"
- "The Frenetic Fanatic Phonic Backlash"
- "Some Characteristics of the Historically Black Colleges"
- Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School Children, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ann Arbor School District Board
- The Read-Aloud Handbook
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
