Marshall Bloom
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Marshall Bloom is best known as the co-founder of the Liberation News Service
(LNS) with Ray Mungo
in 1967.
, and graduated in 1966. While there, he served as Chairman of The Student publication and received the Samuel Bowles Prize for his accomplishments in journalism.During the summer of 1965 Marshall worked as the Montgomery, Alabama correspondent for The Southern Courier reporting on the Civil Rights struggle.
Bloom achieved some national notoriety in England, where he attended the London School of Economics
as a graduate student and was elected as President of its Student Union. He had a prominent role in the sit-ins and demonstrations there in the spring of 1967 protesting the appointment of Sir Walter Adams as the school's next director. He was suspended and his suspension sparked further demonstrations. He was to be have been Director of the United States Student Press Association
in 1967 but he was "purged".
In 1968, the LNS moved to New York, and in August, an internal split developed. Bloom left to contribute to the counterculture phenomenon of rural communes in the late 60s by buying a farm in Montague, Massachusetts
and abandoning political activism in an urban setting and supplanting it with a Thoreau
vian lifestyle. His former political colleagues, Ray Mungo
and Verandah Porche
were among the founders of a similar rural commune in southern Vermont.
For part of 1968, Bloom published the "LNS of the New Age" but the project died, when the ink froze in the mimeograph.
suggested that he was a closeted gay as does Amy Stevens.
Liberation News Service
Liberation News Service was a New Left, Underground press news service which published news bulletins from 1967 to 1981.-History:The Liberation News Service was co-founded in the summer of 1967 by Ray Mungo and Marshall Bloom after the two of them were separated from the United States Student...
(LNS) with Ray Mungo
Ray Mungo
Raymond Mungo is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books. He writes about business, economics, and financial matters as well as cultural issues...
in 1967.
Early life and university studies
Marshall Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado. He attended Amherst CollegeAmherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
, and graduated in 1966. While there, he served as Chairman of The Student publication and received the Samuel Bowles Prize for his accomplishments in journalism.During the summer of 1965 Marshall worked as the Montgomery, Alabama correspondent for The Southern Courier reporting on the Civil Rights struggle.
Bloom achieved some national notoriety in England, where he attended the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
as a graduate student and was elected as President of its Student Union. He had a prominent role in the sit-ins and demonstrations there in the spring of 1967 protesting the appointment of Sir Walter Adams as the school's next director. He was suspended and his suspension sparked further demonstrations. He was to be have been Director of the United States Student Press Association
United States Student Press Association
The United States Student Press Association was a national organization of campus newspapers and editors active in the 1960s. It formed a national news agency called College Press Service . USSPA was developed as a program of the National Student Association . USSPA later became independent, then...
in 1967 but he was "purged".
Liberation News Service
The Liberation News Service was the "Associated Press" for more than 500 underground newspapers. The inaugural issue of the Liberation News Service, a mimeographed news packet, was sent in the summer of 1967, and the organization was affirmed by editors of underground papers at a meeting that took place during the October 1967 March on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C..In 1968, the LNS moved to New York, and in August, an internal split developed. Bloom left to contribute to the counterculture phenomenon of rural communes in the late 60s by buying a farm in Montague, Massachusetts
Montague, Massachusetts
Montague is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,489 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts metropolitan statistical area....
and abandoning political activism in an urban setting and supplanting it with a Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...
vian lifestyle. His former political colleagues, Ray Mungo
Ray Mungo
Raymond Mungo is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books. He writes about business, economics, and financial matters as well as cultural issues...
and Verandah Porche
Verandah Porche
Verandah Porche is a poet living in Guilford, Vermont. -Biography:Porche attended public schools in Teaneck, New Jersey, graduated from Teaneck High School in 1963, and went on to Boston University, graduating in 1968. That same year, with some friends, she founded a commune in southern...
were among the founders of a similar rural commune in southern Vermont.
For part of 1968, Bloom published the "LNS of the New Age" but the project died, when the ink froze in the mimeograph.
Death
Bloom committed suicide November 1, 1969. Many theories have emerged as to why he killed himself. Allen Young (writer)Allen Young (writer)
Allen Young is an American journalist, author and editor who is also a social, political and environmental activist.-Early life:Allen Young, born in Liberty, N.Y., on June 30, 1941, to Rae Young and Louis Young. His parents, both secular Jews, spent their youth in New York City, then relocated to...
suggested that he was a closeted gay as does Amy Stevens.