Bloom Papers 1950-1999 1962-1999

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Bloom Papers 1950-1999 1962-1999

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Correspondence, diaries, unpublished writings, news clippings, publications, financial records, photographs and other materials chiefly documenting Bloom's childhood, education, personal life and work as the founder of Liberation News Service and its larger role in the radical counterculture of the 1960s.

10 records storage boxes, 2 archives boxes, 3 oversize flat boxes; (12.5 linear ft.)

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Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Mungo, Raymond, 1946-....

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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...

United States Student Press Association

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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...

Aronson, James

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Amherst College. Class of 1966. Bloom.

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London school of economics and political science

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For a full administrative history of the LSE, see the description for the main LSE records (Ref: London School of Economics and Political Science Archives). From the guide to the London School of Economics and Political Science: materials for the history of the School, 1895-1947, (British Library of Political and Economic Science) ...