- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Tom Coffin oral history interview, 2016-03-04
- Creator:
- Coffin, Tom
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2016-03-04
- Subject:
- High School Students
Journalism
Printing industry
Photography
Underground newspapers
Counterculture
Emory University - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Oregon, Clackamas County, Portland, 45.4254201, -122.742270676071
United States, Washington, Grant County, Soap Lake, 47.38931, -119.49059 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Coffin was born on September 1,1943 in Dearborn, Michigan. After college, Coffin married and moved to Atlanta, where he attended graduate school at Emory University. He developed an interest in the anti-Vietnam War movement and became fascinated with the idea of creating a newspaper. It wasn't long before Coffin and other students at Emory came together to put his vision into reality. He left Emory to work towards publishing a paper. He received support and contributions from different people and professors, and later published The Great Speckled Bird.
In this interview, Tom Coffin goes in depth about himself and the relationship he had with the making of The Great Speckled Bird. He shares what it was like growing up in Soap Lake, Washington, and discusses some of the people who influenced him the most. He reveals what went into publishing The Bird and the important people who made it possible. He discusses The Bird's evolving staff dynamics and his eventual departure from the staff. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10221
- 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: Coffin, Tom, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, March 4, 2016, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:10:27
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
