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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011 AT 10:32AM
'The fight is on': Hayden, Ross lead talk on engagement and citizenry, by Jim Keogh.
Professor Bob Ross with Tom Hayden.The year was 1961, and Tom Hayden had been in jail in the South for participating in civil rights protests when he put pen to paper. What began as a letter to his friends in Students for a Democratic Society blossomed into the blueprint for the Port Huron Statement, the manifesto that helped launch the student activist movements of the 1960s.
As the Port Huron Statement, primarily authored by Hayden in 1962, approaches its 50th anniversary, the seeds it planted continue to bear
