Mark Rudd (right) with Tom Hayden Strand Bookstore, New York City, 2007
Born
(1947-06-02) June 2, 1947 (age 77)
Irvington, New Jersey
Education
Columbia University
Spouse
Marla Painter
External videos
Panel: How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia U. Strike Against Militarism & Racism 50 Years Ago
Mark William Rudd (born June 2, 1947) is an American political organizer, mathematics instructor, anti-war activist and counterculture icon who was involved with the Weather Underground in the 1960s.
Rudd became a member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1963. By 1968, he had emerged as a leader for Columbia's SDS chapter. During the 1968 Columbia University Protests, he served as spokesperson for dissident students protesting a variety of issues, particularly the Vietnam War. As the war escalated, Mark Rudd worked with other youth movement leaders to take SDS in a more militant direction. While much of the general membership of SDS refused to countenance violence, Rudd together with some other prominent SDS members formed a paramilitary organization inspired by the Red Guard, referring to themselves collectively as "Weatherman" after the lyrics from a famous Bob Dylan song.
Rudd went "underground" in 1970, hiding from law enforcement following the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three of his Weather Underground peers. He surrendered to authorities in 1977 and served a short jail sentence. He taught mathematics at Central New Mexico Community College, and retired in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rudd has since expressed regret for his role in the Weather Underground, and advocates for nonviolence and electoral change.[1]
^"Mark Rudd, Weather Underground Activist | Harvard Political Review". harvardpolitics.com. 26 October 2010. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
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"[citation needed] The following month, Gold and Columbia SDS activist MarkRudd were arrested in midtown Manhattan on November 14, 1967, for chanting...
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appear for trial ten days later. The police were at a loss to find them; MarkRudd, another veteran of the 1968 Columbia protests who had joined the Weathermen...
most of the SDS leadership including Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert and MarkRudd, became Weathermen. Weathermen briefly retained control of the SDS National...
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Panel: How Black Students Helped Lead the 1968 Columbia U. Strike Against Militarism & Racism 50 Years Ago