Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project

Collection

Identifier: Y015

Staff Only

Scope and Contents of the Oral History Project

The Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project consists of born-digital interviews with more than 30 former staff members of the underground newspaper.

Dates

2016-2018

Creator

Reisinger, Andrew James, 1977- (Interviewer, Person)

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research use.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Georgia State University is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research, subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Georgia State University may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

Historical Note

The Great Speckled Bird was one of several underground newspapers that appeared in the United States in the 1960s. Published in Atlanta from 1968 to 1976, The Bird, as it was commonly known, stood out among the alternative press for the quality of its writing, its cover art and its fearless opinions and reporting on a range of topics—national and local politics, the counterculture, women’s issues, gay liberation, reproductive choice, music, art… The Bird was a new, radical voice from the South.

Extent

494 Gigabytes (39 interviews)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Great Speckled Bird was one of several underground newspapers that appeared in the United States in the 1960s. The Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project consists of interviews with over 30 former staff memebers of the underground newespaper.

Acquisition Information

Created by Traci Drummond and Andy Reisinger between 2016 and 2018.

Digital Access

The GSU Digital Collections Great Speckled Bird Collection includes access to many of these oral histories as well as every issue of the newspaper.

Related Materials in this Repository

A complete run (1968-1976: 1984-1985) of the Great Speckled Bird forms a part of the Labor Periodicals Collection. For access to paper copies of the Bird, see the L-periodicals finding aid