Background
Marshall Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado.
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Marshall Bloom
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He attended Amherst College, and graduated in 1966.
Career
During the summer of 1965 Marshall worked as the Montgomery, Alabama correspondent for The Southern Courier reporting on the Civil Rights struggle. 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".
The was the "Associated Press" for more than 500 underground newspapers. The inaugural issue of the, a mimeographed news packet, was sent in the summer of 1967.
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 Thoreauvian lifestyle.
Bloom committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
On November 1, 1969 he was found dead in his car with the tailpipe connected to the window. Many theories have emerged as to why he killed himself. Allen Young (writer) and Amy Stevens have both suggested that he was a closeted gay.
Achievements
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While there, he served as Chairman of The Student publication and received the Samuel Bowles Prize for his accomplishments in journalism. 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.
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