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| Type | Underground |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Staff-owned and -published |
| Editor | (Founding) Thorne Dreyer and Carol Neiman |
| Founded | October 10, 1966 |
| Ceased publication | 1977 |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas |
| Sister newspapers | Member: Underground Press Syndicate (UPS); Liberation News Service (LNS) |
| ISSN | 0033-8621 |
| Free online archives | voices.revealdigital.org |
The Rag was an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977. The weekly paper covered political and cultural topics that the conventional press ignored, such as the growing antiwar movement, the sexual revolution, gay liberation, and drug culture. It encouraged these political constituencies and countercultural communities to coalesce into a significant political force in Austin.[1] As the sixth member of the Underground Press Syndicate and the first underground paper in the South, The Rag helped shape a flourishing national underground press.
According to historian and publisher Paul Buhle, The Rag was "one of the first, the most long-lasting and most influential" of the Sixties underground papers.[2] In his 1972 book, The Paper Revolutionaries, Laurence Leamer called The Rag "one of the few legendary undergrounds."[3]
- ^ Dreyer, Thorne; Embree, Alice; Croxdale, Richard (2016). Celebrating The Rag. Austin, Texas: The New Journalism Project. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-365-39054-8.
- ^ Buhle, Paul, introduction, On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S., edited by Sean Stewart (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011)
- ^ Leamer, Laurence, The Paper Revolutionaries : The Rise of the Underground Press (New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972)