Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
6
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 02, 1941 ( 17 years old )
Place of Birth
Flint, Michigan, USA
John Sinclair
As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he conspicuously served as a founding member of the White Panther Party, a militantly anti-racist socialist group and counterpart of the Black Panther Party. Arrested for distribution of marijuana in 1969, Sinclair was given ten years in prison. The sentence was criticized by many as unduly harsh, and it galvanized a noisy protest movement led by prominent figures of the 1960s counterculture. He was freed on March 9, 1972, by the Michigan Supreme Court when the possession of marijuana law was declared unconstitutional.
Known For
MC5: A True Testimonial
2002-02-02Off the Road
2007-07-07Requiem for Detroit?
2010-03-13MC5: Kick Out the Jams
1999-09-07Growing Up in America
1989-04-16