Bloom (AC 1966) Alternative Press Collection ca. 1967-1992

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Bloom (AC 1966) Alternative Press Collection ca. 1967-1992

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Approximately 3,500 alternative "underground" newspapers published chiefly in the United States, ca. 1967-1989, most originally compiled by Liberation News Service as record copies from its subscribers. Also included is a much smaller collection of glossy magazines for gay men, ca. 1967-1992.

507 newspaper boxes (ca. 3,500 individual titles); (253.5 linear ft.)

eng,

ita,

spa,

fre,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6321500

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Bloom, Marshall, 1944-1969

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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 "u...

Liberation News Service (New York, N.Y.)

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The alternative news agency began in 1967 as The New Media Project staffed by a cooperative of a dozen political activists in Washington, D.C.In 1968 a schism within the group resulted in the core staff moving operations to New York, led by founders Raymond Mungo and Allen Bloom. The organization originally published a packet of news information twice weeklywhich was sent to subscribers throughout the United States and world up until the organization's demise in 1980. The goal of the organizatio...

Liberation News Service (Montague, Mass.)

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Liberation News Service (Washington, D.C.)

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Amherst College. Class of 1966. Bloom.

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