ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the campus radical movement during the fifties. It deals with major socially concerned student organizations, the religious and conservative movements. Socialist students were able to understand the direction of the student movement at the end of the fifties and to work constructively in some of the broader "single issue" organizations such as the student peace union and in the civil rights movement. The ideological similarities and differences between the various Socialist organizations tell much about the concerns of student radicals during the fifties. Radicals had to deal with other ideological and tactical questions during the fifties which tended to limit their effectiveness. Certainly the main cause was the general political atmosphere and the harassment of radicals, particularly Communists, during the fifties. The Communists, particularly, were so harassed that legal expenses and campaigns to free their leaders from prison took the place of political organizing.
