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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were an organization of students and other young people from the early 1960s until 1969. SDS organized protests in favor of equal rights, crime prevention, anti-poverty movements, etc. After about 1965, SDS began to focus less on Black rights and more on anti-war activities. The Berkeley Free Speech Movement is generally associated with SDS. SDS had an extremely radical element that was sometimes blamed for domestic terrorism but the accuracy of these claims is uncertain. The organization disbanded in 1969 but some youth continued to identify with it.

The name Students for a Democratic Society has been re-used in recent years by an unrelated organization.

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