- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 76
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1983-09-02
- Subject:
- Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Protest movements--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- radio programs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This recording opens with an introduction of the program by Boyd Lewis. The entire program is a feature documenting the 20th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington through the perspectives of several Atlantans who made the trip to Washington D.C. for a second march in August of 1983. The program features audio excerpts from Ebon Dooley; Cindia Cameron and Ginger Hewitt Morris of an office worker's advocate organization called 9 to 5; Randy Brooks, a self-described revolutionary; Georgia State University student Debra Carter; Clark College student Marsha Gibson; Ethel Matthews of the Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization; June and John Clark; Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis; Coretta Scott King; Alvin Dollar and his young son; Atlanta pastor Steve Racer, and Atlanta law student Donald Taylor. The program ends with a sign off by Boyd Lewis.
"Southwind" was a radio program about the issues, people, and culture of the South that aired on WABE-FM, Atlanta's public radio station. The series, which aired from 1980 to 1987, was conceived, produced, and reported by journalist Boyd Lewis. - Local Identifier:
- MSS 1118.076.001
ahc.1118.076.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/104
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright is held by Boyd Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- 7 in. reel-to-reel audio tape, 3 3/4 ips
29:30 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
