- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Pam Beardsley oral history interview, 2017-03-07
- Creator:
- Beardsley, Pam
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-03-07
- Subject:
- Underground newspapers
Political activists
Political participation
Buddhists
Hippies - Location:
- India, 22.0, 79.0
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
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/mp4
- Description:
- Pam Beardsley was born in New York and spent much of her early childhood on Long Island. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. where she majored in Asian studies and became involved in anti-war activism. She moved to Atlanta in 1971, where she became involved in the Great Speckled Bird, largely as a type-setter. Beardsley became a Tibetan Buddhist in the 1990s, and eventually moved to India in 2001.
Beardsley describes her childhood and relationship with her parents. In describing her formative college years, Beardsley describes a series of events that shaped her worldview and led her to participate in political activism. Upon moving to Atlanta in 1971, Beardsley began working for the Great Speckled Bird as a typesetter. She talks about how her experiences protesting nuclear energy ended her activist career. Lastly, she describes her interest in Tibetan Buddhism, and her present-day life in India. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10240
- 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-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Beardsley, Pam, interviewed by Andy Reisinger, March 7, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:39:13
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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