Student Protests

Question 1

What was SDS?

Answer 1

Students for a Democratic Society

Question 2

When was SDS set up?

Answer 2

1959

Question 3

What were two groups which were involved with Civil rights?

Answer 3

SNCC and CORE

Question 4

What were some activities groups took part in to get involved with civil rights?

Answer 4

Sit ins (people sitting where they shouldn’t as a form of protest) and freedom rides (a series of political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South)

Question 5

Where did SDS organise a sit in and why?

Answer 5

Berkeley University when they banned political activities on campus

Question 6

In 1969, how many students marched against the war in Washington?

Answer 6

700,000

Question 7

What was the fractional group called which became more radical?

Answer 7

Weathermen

Question 8

What activists did weathermen take part in?

Answer 8

Member recruitment and government buildings

Question 9

When did the membership of the SDS increase?

Answer 9

Following Johnson’s bombings of North Vietnam in 1965 and when Johnson abolished students draft deferments 1966

Question 10

How many members did the SDS have by 1970?

Answer 10

100,000