What was Michael Moores early life like?
In 1954, Michael Moore was born in Davison, Michigan, a suburb of Flint, to an Irish Catholic family of laborers. At 14, Moore, impressed by the Berrigans, joined a diocesan seminary. But a year later, he was asked to leave. Moore cited girls as the main proponent. He was forced to return to Davison High School, where he became a star of the school debate team, a student- government organizer and even authored a school play. “It was a religious theme and it ended when Christ comes down off the cross and is nailed back up. The people who nailed Christ back up were modeled on people in my town. They could recognize themselves.” In 1970, Moore received the Eagle Scout award. His Eagle Scout project was a slide show exposing the worst polluters in Flint. After high school, Moore worked several jobs, including one at Buick, which he quit on his first day. In 1972, spurned on by Donald Priehs, his former government teacher, Moore decided to run for the school board and won; at 18, Moore beca
