Space City News Vol 1 No 1 1969 [ Underground Newspaper , Bloody Thursday ]
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First Issue of Famous Space City News Underground Paper of Houston Texas With People’s Park “Bloody Thursday” Coverage
[Space City Collective]. Space City News Vol 1 No 1. Houston, Texas. June 5, 1969.
One of the most important underground newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s, Space City – called Space City News for its first 12 issues – ran from 1969 to 1972. Founded by members of Students for a Democratic Society and noted for its incisive coverage of politics, art, and counterculture, this first issue is notable for republishing Outcry’s coverage of the May 15, 1969 People’s Park struggle in San Francisco, more commonly known as “Bloody Thursday”. In local news, the issue also reports a Houston SDS car was firebombed by members of the KKK. This issue also includes underground cartoons from Ron Cobb and Gilbert Shelton, as well as translated poetry from the then-late Guatemalan poet and revolutionary Otto Rene Castillo (1936 – 1967).
24pp, folded newsprint folio. 1.5” chip missing from top fore edge and splitting along fold front page. Evidence of past mailing. Pg 3 split at fold. Wear and tear to exterior edges. Pages toned with wear but clean. Fairly good.
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