- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Marjorie Jordan oral history interview, 2019-10-24
- Creator:
- Jordan, Marjorie
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew James, 1977-
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2019-10-24
- Subject:
- Protest movements
Newsletters
Education
Political participation
Civil rights
Civil rights movement - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary works)
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Marjorie Jordan was born in Boston, Massachusetts before her family moved to Venezuela and traveled the world before landing in Sarasota, Florida. She moved to Atlanta after graduating high school, and became an artist. She continues to paint, draw, and photograph creative works. In college, she worked on the staff of the Great Speckled Bird as a photographer, contributor, and editor. She was also active in the Civil Rights Movement.
In this interview, Jordan describes her early life and family dynamic, her education and impressions of Atlanta, her politics and activism, and her personal relationships. She also discusses the Great Speckled Bird, the staff and their camaraderie, the obstacles and backlash they faced, and her reflections on her experiences working there. She puts the Bird in context of other civil rights movements going on around the same time, and talks about her current activism. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10278
- 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: Jordan, Marjorie interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, October 24, 2019, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Extent:
- 03:47:50
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
