- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Charlie Cushing oral history interview, 2017-03-01
- Creator:
- Cushing, Charlie
- Contributor to Resource:
- Drummond, Traci
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-03-01
- Subject:
- Underground newspapers
Hippies
Alternative mass media
Advertising
Sailing
Conscientious objectors
Bands (Music)
Women
Gay community - Location:
- United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Florida, Pinellas County, Saint Petersburg, 27.77086, -82.67927
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:
- Charlie Cushing was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. Around 1946, Cushing and his family moved to Tampa, Florida. After high school, Cushing moved to Atlanta to attend college at Georgia Institute of Technology and later transferred to Oglethorpe University. In the 1960s, Cushing became involved with the anti-war movement in Atlanta, where he made connections with the people who founded The Great Speckled Bird. Once the Bird started, Cushing began working as advertising manager for the paper.
In this interview, Charlie Cushing talks about his childhood and describes what college was like for him. He also discusses the various political groups he joined that impacted his life. Cushing discusses joining the staff of the Great Speckled Bird and the role he had while working for the paper. He later talks about the paper's staff, the firebombing of the Bird's headquarters, and the impact the paper had on its audience. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10226
- 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: Cushing, Charlie, interviewed by Traci Drummond, March 1, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:49:01
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
