- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Doyle Niemann oral history interview, 2017-05-04
- Creator:
- Niemann, Doyle
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-05-04
- Subject:
- African Americans--Segregation
Community activists
Journalism
Underground newspapers
Political participation
Politics
Socialism - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Maryland, 39.00039, -76.74997
United States, Nebraska, 41.50028, -99.75067
United States, Texas, Comal County, 29.80818, -98.27825 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mpeg
- Description:
- Doyle Niemann was born in 1947 in Grand Island, Neb. After his involvement in the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s, Niemann became a professional journalist and worked for notable publications such as The Great Speckled Bird and In These Times. He later made the transition to politics and served as a Maryland State Delegate from 2003-2015. He currently works for the State's Attorney's Office in Prince George's County, Md. as a prosecutor.
In this interview, Doyle Niemann provides a detailed overview of his political, personal and professional experiences as a journalist and political activist. Niemann discusses his childhood in racially segregated Grand Island, Neb. and its influence on his progressive political views and connects it to his political activism while a student at the University of Texas as part of the Students for a Democratic Society. He then guides listeners through his entry into journalism and his experiences as part of The Great Speckled Bird newspaper and collective during the early 1970s. Finally, Niemann provides a history of his political activism after his departure from journalism and his involvement in Maryland state politics from the 1980s-2010s. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10242
- 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: Niemann, Doyle, interviewed by Andy Reisinger, May 4, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 04:02:37
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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