“The Port Huron Statement” was the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), an iconic 1960s student activist organization that called for participatory democracy, direct action and civil disobedience, an end to racial discrimination, and the enlargement of the public sector as a way to end economic inequality. The SDS was also highly critical of U.S. Cold War policies, the arms race with the Soviet Union, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In later years, until the organization dissolved in 1969, it led student protests of the war in Vietnam and was active in the civil rights movement.