Ted Gold
| Ted Gold | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Theodore Gold December 13, 1947 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 1970 (aged 22) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Known for | student activist vicechairman of Students for a Democratic Society, Columbia University chapter member of the Weatherman Underground |
Theodore "Ted" Gold (December 13, 1947 – March 6, 1970) was a member of Weatherman.
Gold was a red diaper baby. He was the son of Hyman Gold, a prominent Jewish physician and a mathematics instructor at Columbia University who had both been part of the Old Left. His mother was a statistician who taught at Columbia. His parents lived in an upper-middle-class high-rise apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. While Gold's father had gone to medical school, Gold's parents had experienced economic hardship. But Gold considered his parents affluent and upper-middle-class, although certainly not part of the Establishment or ruling class.
In 1958, before he reached the age of 11, Gold had attended his first civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C. As a boy, he had gone to summer camp with other red diaper babies at Camp Kinderland (Yiddish for "Children's Land") in upstate New York. From 1959-1961, Gold attended Joan of Arc Junior High School (JHS 118) on 93rd Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue.
Gold attended Stuyvesant High School, an elite public high school in Manhattan, where he was a member of the school's cross-country track team, the Stamp Club, and the History and Folklore Society. Arriving at Columbia University in Fall 1964, Gold immediately became involved in campus Civil Rights Movement activity. He organized fund-raising activities for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Selma Project with Friends of SNCC at Columbia University, founded by Neal H. Hurwitz, College Class of '66. Gold identified more with SNCC activists than with the activists of any other Civil Rights Movement groups.
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