The Great Speckled Bird was one of several underground newspapers that appeared in the United States in the 1960s. Published in Atlanta from 1968 to 1976, The Bird, as it was commonly known, stood out among the alternative press for the quality of its writing, its cover art and its coverage of a range of topics—national and local politics, the counterculture, women’s issues, gay liberation, music, and art. The Bird was a new, radical voice from the South.
In 2011, Georgia State University Library received a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council to create a traveling exhibit that will introduce The Bird, now digitized and available online, to a new generation of readers. The exhibit is currently on display at the Oxford College Library @ Lovern Hall.
This project is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.