John Sinclair

Who is John Sinclair?

John Sinclair 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 was a member of the Class of 1960 at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, but he dropped out after his freshman year. 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.