Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  By most accounts, the first-generation of underground papers were overwhelmingly misogynistic. These papers began publication between 1964 and 1967, just before the second-wave of feminism had fully taken hold. Even though most papers were socially progressive with regard to the war in Vietnam and racism, theRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  Ron Cobb is one of the most celebrated cartoonists of the underground press. His cartoons and drawings were syndicated in underground papers all over the country. They (usually brilliantly) express Cobb’s perspectives on war, race, poverty, police, ecology, and the characteristically countercultural fear of excessive technologicalRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  The Independent Voices archive has just added a collection of The East Village Other (EVO). The paper was founded in 1967 by a number of people who became well-known authors of the Underground Press: Allan Katzman, Walter Bowart and John Wilcock. At its peak, the paper publishedRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  On January 14, 1967, more than 20,000 hippies and participants in the counterculture gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park to do little more than simply “be” together (Lee and Shalin 62). The event cemented San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury as a center of countercultural activity, setting theRead More