John Sinclair

John Sinclair born October 2 1941 in Flint Michigan is an American poet from Detroit onetime manager of the band MC5 and leader of the White Panther Party a militantly antiracist 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 MichiganFlint During his time at UMFlint John served on the universitys Publications Board school newspaper the word and was the president of the Cinema Guild He graduated in 1964