Film – “Fordham SDS” (Zoom event)

Film – Fordham SDS (http://www.fordhamsds.org)
37:17  minutes  (2014)

Discussion after the film.

The SDS rebellion against racism and the education system is screened in this film by Bert Schultz. The film is an inside look at the struggle at Fordham college in New York and the fight against racism by students.
The 1960s on campus are often portrayed as an idyll of peace and love, punctuated by Ivy League anti-war mad bombers.  Lost to this narrative are the gritty struggles against capitalism and the Vietnam War waged by blue-collar kids in commuter schools.  Fordham SDS addresses this gap by exploring the struggle of working class college students in this Jesuit university in The Bronx, and how it affected the course of their lives into the 21st century.  Mixing dramatic 16mm black and white footage from 1969 with contemporary interviews, this documentary by Bert Schultz fills in a gap left in the narratives told by both historians of the mainstream and of the left.