- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Barbara Joye oral history interview, 2016-06-09
- Creator:
- Joye, Barbara R.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2016-06-09
- Subject:
- Underground newspapers
Hippies
Alternative mass media
Universities and colleges
Political participation
Protest movements
Nineteen sixties
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mpeg
- Description:
- Barbara Joye grew up in a Jewish professional family in New York City. She attended Vassar College, where she became politically active and helped found a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society. She studied medieval literature in graduate school, and later moved with her husband, Harlon Joye, to Atlanta, where she got a job teaching at Atlanta University. Joye became involved with the Great Speckled Bird shortly after its inception, and she stayed involved into the 1970s. Joye and Harlon cofounded WRFG radio station, an Atlanta community station that is still in operation. Joye has stayed heavily involved in political activism since college.
In this interview, Barbara Joye begins by giving background information about her family and early life. She talks about the culture shock she experienced after moving to Atlanta from New York in the 1960s. She discusses her political activism, her involvement with the Great Speckled Bird, the cultural and social atmosphere of 1960s Atlanta, the dynamics of various left-wing activist groups, her career, and her personal life. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10220
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Joye, Barbara, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, June 9, 2016, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:23:54
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
