Student League for Industrial Democracy Records TAM.024
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY, 10012
(212) 998-2630
tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu
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Descriptive Summary
| Creator: | Student League for Industrial Democracy (U.S.). |
|---|---|
| Title: | Student League for Industrial Democracy Records |
| Dates: | 1934-1936; 1946-1966 |
| Quantity: | 5.5 linear feet (11 boxes) |
| Mixed materials [Box]: | 1-11 |
| Call Phrase: | TAM.024 |
Historical/Biographical Note
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were a radical student group descended from the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social democratic organization. SDS was expelled from the LID in 1965 and gained national prominence in the late 1960s as SDS.
Scope and Contents note
The records contain predominantly SLID material including conference and convention proceedings, correspondence, minutes of national executive committee meetings, membership files, and reports of committees, student secretaries, chapters and other activities.
BOX AND FOLDER LIST (for boxes 1-11) FOLLOWS:
BOX 1
1 Unity with NSL 1935
2 Convention 1934, 1935
3 NEC Minutes 1935
4 Strike against War Nd, 1936
5 Constitution 1946?
6 Miscellaneous and Play Nd, 1934, 1935
7 Chapter Charters 1946
8 Correspondence 1946
9 December Organizing Conference 1946
10 LID Student Committee 1946
11 NEC Minutes 1946
12 Speakers 1946
13 Student Secretary Report 1946
14 Correspondence 1947
15 Constitution-Chapter-National 1947
16 April Convention 1947
17 Speakers 1947
18 Financial Report 1947
19 LID Student Committee 1947
20 National Executive Committee 1947
21 December Convention 1947
22 Student Secretary’s Report Personnel 1947?
23 World Student Congress 1947
BOX 2
1 Correspondence 1948
2 LID Student Committee 1948
3 National Convention 1948
4 National and Chapter 1948
5 National Executive Committee 1948
6 Research Health Care and Housing 1948
7 Speakers 1948
8 Student Secretary’s Report 1948
9 New Leader 1947-49
10 Radio Broadcasts 1946-49
11 United Christian Youth Movement 1945-47
12 YPSL-SP correspondence 1946-48
13 National and Chapter 1949
14 National Executive Committee 1949
15 Student Opinion Survey 1949
16 Correspondence 1949
17 Student Secretary’s Report 1949
18 Training Program UAW 1949
BOX 3
1 Boston Conference 1950
2 Convention 1950
3 National and Chapter 1950
4 Correspondence 1950
5 National Executive Committee 1950
6 Outlook 1950
7 Student Secretary’s Report 1950
8 Convention 1951
9 Correspondence 1951
10 LID Student Committee 1951
11 National and Chapter 1951
12 National Executive Committee 1951
13 Student Secretary’s Report 1951
14 Correspondence 1952
15 FDR-CIO Camp 1952
16 LID Student Committee 1952
17 National and Chapter 1952
18 National Executive Committee 1952
19 Student Dues Receipts 1952
20 Student Secretary’s Report 1952
21 World 1952
BOX 4
0 Cornfeld, Bernard. “Leadership Training in an Oriented Agency – Camp Three Arrows” (M.A. Thesis) 1954
1 Camp Three Arrows 1953
2 Charters 1953
3 Convention 1953
4 Correspondence 1953
5 Field Secretary’s Report 1953
6 Harold Lewack’s Organizing Reports 1953
7 National Executive Committee 1953
8 Spring Conference 1953
9 Student Questionnaires 1953
10 YPSL Correspondence` 1953
11 Camp Three Arrows 1954
12 Conference 1954
13 Convention 1954
14 Correspondence 1954
15 FDR-CIO Camps 1954
16 Field Secretary’s Report 1954
17 National Executive Committee 1954
BOX 5
1 Camp Three Arrows 1955
2 Correspondence 1955
3 ILGWU Training Institute 1955-1958
4 Internat’l Confederation of Free Trade Unions 1955-1956
5 National and Chapter 1955
6 National Executive Committee 1955
7 Bertell Ollman 1956-1957
8 Financial Reports 1956-1957
9 Hungary – Appeal and Statements 1956-1957
10 Monitor-Correspondence 1956-1957
11 Camp Three Arrows 1956
12 Convention 1956
13 Correspondence 1956
14 LID Student Committee 1956
15 NAC 1956
16 National and Chapter 1956
17 Monitor – Unpublished Material Fall ’57 – Spr. ‘58
BOX 6
1 Camp Three Arrows 1957
2 Convention 1957
3 Correspondence 1957
4 Moscow Youth Festival 1957
5 National and Chapter 1957
6 Camp Three Arrows 1958
7 Convention 1958
8 Cornell Conference 1958
9 Correspondence 1958
10 Kolko Correspondence 1954-1957
11 Madison Institute 1958
12 Midwestern Field Trip-Susan Guarmati 1958
13 National and Reports 1958
14 SLID-CCF Youth Study Weekend 1958
15 Study Tours 1958
16 NYC Summer Forums 1958-1959
BOX 7
1 Publication Lists 1950’s
2 Worker priests – Marie T. Dubalem 1954
3 Steward Training – Mildred Bersh 1954-1955
4 SLID research tracts 1955-1956
5 The Case for Federal Scholarships – D. Cohen 1957
6 Camp Three Arrows 1959
7 Convention 1959
8 Correspondence 1959
9 Name Change 1959
10 National Executive Committee 1959
11 Convention 1960
12 Correspondence 1960
13 Request for information on health insurance for debate 1960
14 Civil Rights Study Group 1961
15 CORE 1961
16 Correspondence 1961
17 National and Chapter 1961
18 Reports: Al Haber 1961
19 SNCC 1961
20 Summer Conference Misc. 1961
21 Correspondence 1962
22 Chapters and Charters Applications Nd
23 Educational Program - outlines Nd
24 Field Trips Nd
25 Information on SLID employment-agreements Nd
26 Lists of Youth Organizations Nd
27 McComb, Miss. Hayden Report Nd
28 Membership Files Nd
29 Members – Past and Present Nd
30 Speakers Bureau List Nd
31 Statements Nd
BOX 8
1 CCYM-CCUF correspondence 1946-1955
2 CCYM-CCUF correspondence 1956-1958
3 International Development Placement Association 1952-1953
4 IUSY: correspondence 1948-1954
5 IUSY: correspondence 1955
6 IUSY: correspondence 1956
7 IUSY: correspondence 1957
8 IUSY: Foreign visitors, delegations 1956
9 IUSY: Formation of North American Bureau of IUSY 1951-1952
10 NAB/IUSY Winter Schools 1953, 54, 55, 57
11 NSA correspondence 1950’s
12 SDA correspondence 1950’s
13 SLID-SDA correspondence and agreement 1955
14 Student Co-ops: North American Student Cooperative League 1946, 1957
BOX 9
1 James Farmer Correspondence 1952
2 James Farmer Correspondence 1953
3 James Farmer Correspondence 1954
4 James Farmer Correspondence 1955
BOX 10
1 Brooklyn Nd
2 CCNY 1952
3 Colorado 1960
4 Columbia 1956-1958
5 Cornell 1957-1958
6 Harvard 1955-1957
7 London School of Economics 1956-1957
8 New York Region 1948-1952
9 New York University 1954-1958
10 Oberlin College 1955-1958
11 Princeton 1956-1958
12 Temple University 1956-1957
13 Univ. of Chicago 1955-1958
14 Univ. of Michigan 1956-1959
15 University of Wisconsin 1957-1959
16 Wayne State 1948, 1955
17 Yale: Correspondence 1951-1955
18 Yale: Correspondence 1955-1960
19 Yale: Charter and Activities 1954-1960
20 Yale: Challenge 1959, 1960
21 Yale: News Clippings 1954-1958
BOX 11
1 SDS Development 1962-1963
2 SDS NC & Convention 1963
3 SDS Development 1963-1964
4 SDS NC & Development 1964
5 SDS Development 1964-1965
6 SDS – ERAP Projects 1964
7 SDS Finances 1964
8 SDS – Post 1965
9 SDS NC & Convention 1965
10 SDS Development 1965-1966
Access Points
Document Type
- Correspondence.
- Minutes.
- Proceedings.
Subject Organizations
- Student League for Industrial Democracy (U.S.).
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.).
Subject Topics
- Socialism and youth |z United States.
- Student movements |z United States.
Administrative Information
Separated Materials
Three boxes of printed materaial were removed from the collection and consolidated with the Students for Democratic Society Printed Ephemera Collection (PE 035).