Biography/History

TODD GITLIN

1943	Birth in New York City.
1959	Valedictorian of his senior class at the Bronx High School of Science, a competitive public school, and a participant in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
1959-1963	Attended Harvard where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with distinction. While an undergraduate he was active in peace and protest groups such as Turn Toward Peace and TOCSIN, a Harvard and Radcliffe organization for disarmament which eventually became an SDS chapter. He served as vice-chairman in 1961 and chairman in 1962 of TOCSIN.
1962	Chairman of the Boston ad hoc committee for the student demonstration sponsored by Turn Toward Peace in Washington, D.C. on February 16 and 17. He also worked on the unsuccessful senatorial campaign of H. Stuart Hughes, the faculty moderator of TOCSIN, when Hughes ran against Edward Kennedy and Henry Cabot Lodge.
1963-1964	Did graduate work in sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and was elected national president of Students for a Democratic Society.
circa 1964	Married Nanci Hollander. They lived in Chicago and were active in the SDS-initiated community organization JOIN.
1965	Worked at Ann Arbor with Paul Booth in SDS' Peace Research and Education Project (PREP), writing about the draft and other issues related to the anti-war movement.
1968	Gitlin and Hollander were divorced.
1968-1969	Wrote for the underground press in San Francisco (Express Times) and elsewhere.
1970	Published Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago with Nanci Hollander. The book concerned Southern migrants and JOIN's efforts to organize them.
1971	Published Campfire of the Resistance: Poetry from the Movement.
1970-1973	Published essays and book and film reviews in such magazines as Ramparts, Liberation, Christian Century, Partisan Review, Black Box, and Tri-Quarterly.
1970	Served as lecturer at New College, California State University, San Jose.

NANCI HOLLANDER

1943?	Birth
1962-1964	Did undergraduate work at the University of Michigan, where she was active in the University of Michigan Friends of SNCC, the National Student Movement, the Provisional Student Civil Liberties Coordinating Committee, and VOICE, the SDS party in UM student government.
1963-1964	Worked for SDS' national office in Ann Arbor.
1964	Married Todd Gitlin, moved to Chicago and became active in JOIN.
circa 1966	Made political motion picture shorts for Newsreel, a Chicago film company.

This information was obtained from the Harvard Alumni Directory (1965), from an archives student's interview with James O'Brien in 1970, and from correspondence with Todd Gitlin.