- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Steve Wise oral history interview, 2016-07-21
- Creator:
- Wise, Steve
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2016-07-21
- Subject:
- Underground newspapers
Hippies
Alternative mass media
Universities and colleges
Segregation
Emory University
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - 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:
- Steve Wise was born May 28,1943 in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the summer of 1961, Wise moved to Atlanta to be a co-op student at Georgia Tech. He was there for one year to study civil engineering then transferred to Emory University. He studied history and began writing a series of columns for the student newspaper at Emory. Later, Wise went to the Institute for Policy Studies for more economic background. After leaving the institute in August of 1968, Wise begin working at the Great Speckled Bird.
In this interview, Steve Wise talks about his family and his experience growing up in Virginia. He also describes what it was like moving to Atlanta and going to school at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Wise talks about his interest in anti-war news and mentions the people and projects that influenced him. He also comments on where he got his writing experience, how he began working for the Great Speckled Bird, and the role he had while there. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10224
- 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: Wise, Steve, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, July 21, 2016, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:46:16
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
