Great Speckled Bird

Linked to Student Movements of the 1960s

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Staff members of the Great Speckled Bird, an underground newspaper in Atlanta published from 1968 to 1976, meet to plan a forthcoming issue. The paper, founded by students from several Georgia colleges, advocated New Left issues.

Photograph by Carter Tomassi

Great Speckled Bird

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