Events

Past Event

Sixties Underground Press & the Rise of Alternative Media in America

January 23, 2018
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 203
A talk by John McMillian, Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, on the role of the underground press in the 1960s, with a focus on coverage of the Columbia student protests of 1968. McMillian is the author of Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America, and co-editor of The Radical Reader and The New Left Revisited.