John Sinclair

Born: 1941-10-02

John Sinclair (born October 2, 1941 in Flint, Michigan) is an American poet from Detroit, one-time manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party — a militantly anti-racist countercultural group of white socialists seeking to assist the Black Panthers in the Civil Rights movement — from November 1968 to July 1969. Sinclair attended the Flint College of the University of Michigan, now the University of Michigan-Flint. During his time at UM-Flint John served on the university's Publications Board, school newspaper "the word", and was the president of the Cinema Guild. He graduated in 1964.


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Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges

as Self
Released: 2008-03-07

Documentary looking at how Detroit became home to a musical revolution that captured the sound...

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Growing Up in America

as Self
Released: 1989-04-16

Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and...

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MC5: A True Testimonial

as Himself
Released: 2002-02-02

This documentary, made over a period of eight years, tells the remarkable story of an extremely...

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Off the Road

as uncredited
Released: 2007-07-07

Off The Road (directed by Laurence Petit-Jouvet): Peter Kowald on the road in the US, a road movie.

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