Journalists
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Collin Kelley papers
Collection
Identifier: Q206
Abstract
Collin Kelley began a journalism career in 1986 and has become an award winning playwright, author, poet, and editor. He has served as the director of the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, a board member of Poetry Atlanta, and as the vice president of the Georgia Writers Association. Kelley's papers, 1936, 1977-2020, undated, comprise his journalism publications, plays, poetry collections, and novels, 1984-2020, and his personal LGBT collection of printed material and photographs, 1936,...
Dates:
1936, 1977-2020, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: Y015
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.
Dates:
2016-2020
Found in:
Special Collections
Jack Tarver research collection
Collection
Identifier: M197
Abstract:
Jackson Williams "Jack" Tarver was born March 2, 1917, in Savannah, Georgia, the only son of banker and hotelier Otis M. Tarver and deLuth Williams Tarver. In 1938, he graduated from Mercer University in Macon with a degree in journalism and began his professional career at The Vidalia Advance The Jack Tarver Research Collection includes logs, indices, one transcript and sound copies of WSB, WABE and WAOK radio programs from the 1950s and the...
Dates:
1955-1969
Found in:
Special Collections
Marc R. Levinson papers
Collection
Identifier: L1983-01
Abstract:
Marc R. Levinson was a journalist and news editor of Creative Loafing, an Atlanta weekly. His papers, 1975-1979, contain three series. The AFSCME Local 1644/City of Atlanta series includes correspondence, news clippings, news releases, and printed materials relating to a strike by Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) against the City of Atlanta in 1977. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile...
Dates:
1975-1978
Found in:
Special Collections
Stetson Kennedy papers
Collection
Identifier: L1979-37
Abstract:
Kennedy's career as an author began in the 1930s when he worked as both a writer and an editor on the Federal Writers Project guide to Florida. The Papers, 1933-1981, of Stetson Kennedy comprise correspondence; subject files on various organizations, individuals, and ideas; typescripts of articles written by Kennedy; newsclippings; press releases; bulletins and fliers; pamphlets; periodicals; and photographs. Anyone interested in primary source material on the pioneering struggles to...
Dates:
1933-1981
Found in:
Special Collections