Collection: The Great Speckled Bird Collection | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the newspaper, The Great Speckled Bird. The collection was presented to the Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections on April 27th, 2018 by Stephanie Coffin. The collection is to be catalogued and made public to the University and Community. The collection contains newspapers scattered through the years. Collection provides Volumes 1-7 (complete) and Volumes 9-10 (incomplete).

Dates

Creation: 1968-1985

Biographical / Historical

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, was a new, radical voice from the South. The Bird 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, and more. Courtesy of Georgia State Archives.