- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Anne Jenkins Perry oral history interview, 2017-06-02
- Creator:
- Perry, Anne Jenkins
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-06-02
- Subject:
- Unitarianism
Underground newspapers
Church
Cooking
Counterculture
Social Justice - 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:
- Anne Jenkins Perry was born in Toronto, Canada in 1947. Her parents were part of the Unitarian church. Perry received a full scholarship to Reed College in Portland, Or., a school with Unitarian ties. At Reed, Perry studied anthropology and archaeology. She also became involved in politics (presidential campaigns, race conflicts). Perry moved to Atlanta in August of 1968 and began working for The Great Speckled Bird. Subsequently, Perry worked in many fields including tourism and finance.She currently spends much of her time working within her Unitarian church in Rochester, N.Y.
In this interview, Anne Jenkins Perry discusses her early childhood in Canada. She also discusses her high school years in Rochester, N.Y. and college years at Reed College, including becoming interested in political activity. Perry discusses her political activity throughout her life and her years at The Great Speckled Bird. Perry also discusses her many jobs after The Bird and her memories of her time at The Bird. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10253
- 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: Perry, Anne Jenkins, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, June 2, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 04:44:37
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
