Port Huron Statement launches student movement of 1960s 50 years ago today (1962)

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(Friday, June 15, 1962) — Students for a Democratic Society, at the conclusion of a five-day convention in Michigan, issued the Port Huron Statement calling for disarmament, enfranchisement of “publicly disinherited groups” and social change.