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SDS proposed a new concept, "participatory democracy." This meant participating in government went beyond placing a ballot on election day.

SDS believed the University played an important role in stimulating intellectual conversation on American political life. Therefore, they encouraged students and professors to actively participate in the world around them.

Student referendum to end class ranking system at the University of Michigan

This is a photograph of members of Students for a Democratic Society at a National Council Meeting in Bloomington, IN in September 1963. Pictured are multiple well known activists during the anti-Vietnam War movement, including Tom Hayden to the far…

Screenshots taken from a video of the 1965 teach-in.

Students protest recruiters who participate in war research.

Leaders and participants of the first teach-in on March 24-25th, 1965, commemorated the anti-Vietnam War activities with another teach-in.

Teach-in against DOW Chemical recruitment on campus takes place at the University of Michigan

Teach-In Explanation to Romney, pages 1-2

As a 50th anniversary commemoration, former leader of SDS, Al Haber, created a forum to discuss the teach-in 50 years later. Panels discussing issues facing the world today, were also incorporated.