Jack Spicer
In 1950 he would not sign a “loyalty oath” to the United States. He left Berkeley to teach at the University of Minnesota. He returned in 1952 and worked on a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse. He never finished his writing for that degree. In 1953 he worked at the California School of Fine Arts. He and five others started the "6" Gallery. That was where Allen Ginsburg and other poets had a famous reading in 1955 that started the Beat movement.