My odyssey through the underground press /
In 1963, Michigan State University, the nation's first land grant college, attracted a record number of National Merit Scholars by offering competitive scholarships. One of these exceptional students was Michael Kindman. After the beginning of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Kindman, in l...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2011.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781609172305 1609172302 9781628960990 162896099X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In 1963, Michigan State University, the nation's first land grant college, attracted a record number of National Merit Scholars by offering competitive scholarships. One of these exceptional students was Michael Kindman. After the beginning of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Kindman, in line to be editor-in-chief of the official MSU student newspaper, felt compelled to seek a more radical forum of intellectual debate. In 1965, he dropped out of school and founded The Paper, one of the first five members of Underground Press Syndicate. This gripping autobiography follows Kindman's inspiring journey of self-discovery, from MSU to Boston, where he joined the staff of Avatar, unaware that the large commune that controlled the paper was a charismatic cult. Five years later, he fled the commune's outpost in Kansas and headed to San Francisco, where he came out as a gay man, changed his name to Mica, and continued his work as an activist and visionary. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 206 pages) : portrait. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | Voices from the underground series.
|
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |