Todd Gitlin, an early leader of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), passed away on February 5 at age seventy-nine. Gitlin’s fellow SDS cohorts, Tom Hayden and Paul Booth, died in 2016 and 2018, respectively, meaning Gitlin’s passing bookends the saga of the most well-known college campus activists, who went from the Port Huron Statement to lead far-reaching community organizing initiatives.

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