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Title

Underground : my life with SDS and the Weathermen / Mark Rudd.

Author

Rudd, Mark.

Publication

New York : William Morrow, [2009], ©2009.

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Description

x, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In 1968, Mark Rudd led the legendary occupation of five buildings at Columbia University, a dramatic act of protest against the university's support for the Vietnam War and its institutional racism. Rudd was the charismatic chairman of the Columbia chapter of SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, the largest radical student organization in the United States. After a violent police bust, the Columbia occupation turned into a student strike that closed down the entire campus, turning Rudd into a national symbol of student revolt. Rudd went on to become the cofounder of the Weatherman faction of SDS, which took control of the student organization and helped organize the notorious Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969." "Rudd and his friends sought to end war, racism, and injustice - by any means necessary, even violence. After a tragic turn that led to the death of three people, who were killed when the bombs they were making in a Greenwich Village town house exploded, they transformed themselves into the Weather Underground Organization. By the end of 1970, after a string of nonlethal bombings by the organization, Rudd, now one of the FBI's Most Wanted, went into hiding for more than seven years before turning himself in to great media fanfare." "In this gripping narrative, Rudd speaks out about this tumultuous period, the role he played in its crucial events, and its aftermath, revealing the drama and tension, as well as the naivete of young activists, fighting in the name of peace and social justice, who believed that their actions mattered."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
• Weather Underground Organization
• Rudd, Mark
• Radicals > United States > Biography
• Student movements > New York (State) > New York > Biography

Contents

Pt. I. Columbia (1965-1968) -- 1. A Good German -- 2. Love and War -- 3. Action Faction -- 4. Columbia Liberated -- 5. Police Riot: Strike! -- 6. Create Two, Three, Many Columbias -- Pt. II. SDS and Weatherman (1968-1970) -- 7. National Traveler -- 8. SDS Split -- 9. Bring the War Home! -- 10. Days of Rage -- 11. To West Eleventh Street -- 12. Mendocino -- Pt. III. Underground (1970-1977) -- 13. The Bell Jar -- 14. Santa Fe -- 15. Schoolhouse Blues -- 16. WUO Split -- 17. A Middle-Class Hero -- Appendix. Map of Columbia University Main Campus, New York City, 1968.

ISBN

• 9780061472756
• 0061472751

LCCN

40016570192

OCLC

• ocn232978261
• 232978261
• SCSB-5469837

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries