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SDS Was The Largest ‘And Most Powerful New Left Organization In The 1960'S.It Grew Out Of Lid (League For Industrial Democracy), Which Was Founded In 1905 By Intellectuals Including Authors Upton Sinclair And Jack London. It Was Initially Named The Intercollegiate Socialist Society.

Lid Established Slid (The Student League For Industrial Democracy) In The 1930'S, And Slid Became Students For A Democratic Society (SDS) In 1960.

Al Haber, SDS’s First President, Was The Son Of A Michigan Labor Arbitrator Closely Connected To Important Labor Leaders In That State. May Of The Sd5er5 Had Worked In The Civil Rights Movement And Sought To Emulate Ts Grassroots Origins, Its Freewheeling Participatory Democracy. $$ Identified The “Military Industrial Complex” As A Source Of The Nation's Distorted Development, And Sought To Replace, Not Merely Reform, This Center Of Economic And Political Authority.

In The Early 1960'S, SDS6 Was One Of Several Important New Progressive Movements, Including The Civil Rights Groups SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) And Core (Congress Of Racial Equality) And The Berkeley Free Speech Movement. All These Were More Informally. Run Than The Old Left Had Ever Been.

Haber, using knowledge gained in his High School Industrial Arts Class, picked the lock ad opened the door. SDS became independent from LID after a few uneasy years.