{"id":14167,"date":"2014-10-27T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=14167"},"modified":"2015-11-12T08:27:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:27:50","slug":"alternative-newspaper-lives-again-online-through-uwm-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/alternative-newspaper-lives-again-online-through-uwm-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative newspaper lives again (online) through UWM Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14170\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/10\/kaleidescope_j-16zqyii.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14170\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/10\/kaleidescope_j-16zqyii.jpg\" alt=\"Kaleidoscope cover, July 1971\" width=\"300\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/10\/kaleidescope_j-16zqyii.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/10\/kaleidescope_j-16zqyii-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaleidoscope cover, January 1971<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1967, Vietnam, the Beatles, and interracial marriages graced the covers of Time magazine. The Velvet Underground released their first album. So did Jimi Hendrix.\u00a0Psychedelia bloomed. That was also the year of the long hot summer when many cities, including Milwaukee, experienced rioting and civil unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Now people around the world can revisit the era, viewed through the lens of one Milwaukee underground newspaper, the Kaleidoscope, which was recently digitized and placed online through the UWM Libraries: <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/kal\">collections.lib.uwm.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/kal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A complete run of Kaleidoscope \u2013 1967-1971 \u2013 was donated to Special Collections in 2014 by one of its original participants, Gordon Simons.<\/p>\n<p>Editor John Kois, radio DJ Bob Reitman, and designer and rock musician John Sahli founded Kaleidoscope in October 1967. The writers provided the spark and a borrowed $250 became the tinder. The first issue was published to instant notoriety \u2013 and excellent sales \u2013 with 3,500 copies sold out in two days. Articles were written at the whim of the staff and ranged across a multitude of topics, giving an alternative liberal voice to national politics, civil rights, gender and sexuality, city crime and police action, as well as the more standard fare of art, music, and literature.<\/p>\n<p>The writing was unrepentant, explicit, and readers couldn\u2019t get enough \u2013 unless they loathed it, of course. Censorship dogged the newspaper from its birth until after its end in 1971, going as far as the United States Supreme Court over obscenity charges (where the Court ruled in favor of <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/kal\">Kaleidoscope<\/a> and the First Amendment, much to the chagrin of the publication\u2019s challengers). By the time the newspaper folded it had published 105 biweekly issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/kal\">Kaleidoscope<\/a> offers a wealth of information about life and culture in Milwaukee during the late 1960s and early 1970s that is already being used regularly by researchers in Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to be able to put this material online and to see the research that comes from making it widely available,\u201d says Max Yela, head of the Special Collections Department.<\/p>\n<p>Digitization of the Kaleidoscope was supported by the Polly and Stanley Stone fund, which is overseen by the Chipstone Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People around the world can revisit the psychedelic &#8217;60s, viewed through the lens of one Milwaukee underground newspaper, the 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