Editing Todd Gitlin (section)

== Background ==
Todd Alan Gitlin was born on January 6, 1943,<ref name=Britannica>{{citation|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Todd-Gitlin|title=Todd Gitlin|last=Miller|first=Steven P.|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|accessdate=July 3, 2018}}</ref> in Manhattan and raised in [[the Bronx]], the son of Dorothy (Siegel), who taught typing and stenography, and Max Gitlin, who taught high school history. His family was Jewish. He graduated as valedictorian from the [[Bronx High School of Science]] at the age of 16.<ref name = Seelye>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/todd-gitlin-dead.html|title = Todd Gitlin, a Voice and Critic of the New Left, Dies at 79|work = The New York Times|date = February 5, 2022|accessdate = February 5, 2022|last = Seelye|first = Katharine Q.|url-access = limited}}</ref> Enrolling at Harvard College, he graduated in 1963 with an [[A.B.]] ''[[cum laude]]'' in mathematics and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. After his leadership in [[Students for a Democratic Society]], he earned an M.A. in [[political science]] from the [[University of Michigan]] and a Ph.D. in sociology from the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="UMA2021">{{cite web |title=Social change colloquia past – Special Collections & University Archives |url=http://scua.library.umass.edu/outreach/events-calendar/social-change-colloquium/social-change-colloquia-past/ |website=scua.library.umass.edu |publisher=University of Massachusetts Amherst |year=2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022072156/http://scua.library.umass.edu/outreach/events-calendar/social-change-colloquium/social-change-colloquia-past/ |archive-date=22 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="NYHumanities Profile">{{Cite web|url=http://nyihumanities.org/todd-gitlin|title=Todd Gitlin|website=New York Institute for the Humanities|access-date=October 5, 2020|archive-date=October 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013001733/http://nyihumanities.org/todd-gitlin|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Personal life and death===
Gitlin lived in Manhattan and [[Hillsdale, New York]]. He was married three times: his first two marriages, to activist and lawyer [[Nancy Hollander]] and to Carol Wolman, ended in divorce, and his third, to Laurel Ann Cook, lasted from 1995 until his death.<ref name = Seelye />

On December 31, 2021, Gitlin went into cardiac arrest at his home in Hillsdale<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Harrison|date=February 9, 2022|title=Scholar, Activist Chronicled and shaped the New Left for Decades|volume=145|page=B6|newspaper=Washington Post|issue=66|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/02/07/todd-gitlin-new-left-dead/|access-date=February 9, 2022}}</ref> and was hospitalized in nearby [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], where he contracted [[COVID-19]].<ref>[https://newrepublic.com/article/165299/todd-gitlin-dies-obituary-work-against-dark Todd Gitlin’s Work Against the Dark]</ref> He died on February 5, 2022, at the age of 79.<ref name = Seelye />