Learn about Atlanta’s Great Speckled Bird Newspaper at “Hidden Midtown: Radical Roots”

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Learn about Atlanta’s Great Speckled Bird Newspaper at “Hidden Midtown: Radical Roots” Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’); Date: Thursday, April 19, 2018 Time: 6:30pm  Location: Margaret Mitchell House, 979 Crescent Avenue NE Atlanta, GA 30309 Tickets: Available here for $15 ($10 for Midtown Alliance members) In 1968, politically minded Atlantans launched an underground newspaper, the Great Speckled Bird. Taking on political issues such as antiwar protests, the women’s movement, civil rights struggles, and gay liberation, the paper grew quickly from a biweekly paper to the largest paid weekly newspaper in Georgia. During the paper’s eight-year run, its stellar young journalists also reviewed cutting-edge cultural arts and created some…
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