John Sinclair
October 2, 1941 (82 years old) in Flint, Michigan, USA
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2008 · Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges as Self
- 2007 · Off the Road as
- 2002 · MC5: A True Testimonial as Himself
- 1989 · Growing Up in America as Self