Exploring controversial topics such as race, women's rights, and sexuality, the The Great Speckled Bird was an underground newspaper published at Atlanta in the 1960's. With a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council, all issues of the The Bird have been digitized by Georgia State University Library and are available at no cost. A brief history of The Bird is on display on the first floor of Simon Schwob Memorial Library and the entire collection can be viewed at http://library.gsu.edu/gsb
9/11: Christopher Huff will give a lecture, “Reporting the News, Making the
News: The Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta, and the Southern Sixties,” today
at 12:30 in the library forum area.
