- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Steve Wise oral history interview, 2016-08-18
- Creator:
- Wise, Steve
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2016-08-18
- Subject:
- Underground newspapers
Alternative mass media
Newspaper editors
Fires
Rock Music
Retirement
Great Speckled Bird
Emory University
Georgia State University - 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 Bird.
In this follow-up interview, Steve Wise talks more about his various roles working at the Great Speckled Bird. He also describes how the paper was organized and the different locations the Birdhouse moved to after being firebombed. Wise talks about his experience going to Mexico and becoming a part of a Latin American solidarity group. He reveals when and why he retired then discusses his life after The Bird. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10225
- 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, August 18, 2016, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:54:10
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
