Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carl Oglesby was an American writer, academic, and political activist. He was the President of the radical student organization Students for a Democratic Society from 1965 to 1966. Carl Oglesby's father was from South Carolina, and his mother from Alabama. They met in Akron, Ohio, where Carl's father worked in the rubber mills. Carl progressed through the Akron Public School System, winning a prize in his final year for a speech in favor of America's Cold War stance. He went to Kent State University; but dropped out in his third year to try to make his way as an actor and playwright in Greenwich Village, a bohemian area of New York. After a year, he returned to Kent State and graduated, writing three plays and an unfinished novel. He worked at odd jobs until, around 1960, he came to Michiganan. Oglesby first came into contact with members of SDS in Michigan in 1964. At the time he was thirty years old and had a young family