Bloom, Marshall, 1944-1969

Graduate of Amherst College, 1966. Journalist, editor and key agent in the development of the alternative press in the United States in the 1960s. Chairman of The Amherst Student, a newspaper, 1965; participant in Southern civil rights protests; co-founder of The Southern Courier, a progressive newspaper; student at the London School of Economics, 1966-67. Director, United States Student Press Association, 1967; co-founder, 1967, with Ray Mungo, of Liberation News Service, serving alternative "underground" newspapers in the U.S. In 1968, Bloom and others moved LNS to a farm in Montague, Mass. In 1969 LNS publication from Montague ceased, but was continued through 1981 by a New York faction. On November 1, 1969 Bloom committed suicide in Leverett, Mass.

From the description of Bloom papers, 1950-1999 (bulk 1962-1969). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 48651072

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