- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 11
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1981-04-03
- Subject:
- Lynching--Alabama--Mobile
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Hate crimes
Lynching - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- radio programs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This recording opens with singer Bessie Jones' rendition of "Preachin the Blues" and an introduction of the program by Boyd Lewis. The first segment, which begins at 1:17, is feature about the beating, hanging and murder of Michael Donald on March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama. The program includes audio excerpts from interviews of Mobile NAACP President Dr. Robert Gilliard, Mobile mayor Robert Doyle Jr., Reverend Strother Packer, Mobile resident Ed Pool, unidentified friends of Michael Donald, and B.J. Hayes, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The second segment, which begiins at 15:04, is a feature about sailing in Norfolk, Virginia reported by Chris Dickon from radio station WHRO in Norfolk. The third segment, which begins at 22:00, is about Walter Blanchard, a fiddle maker in Jonesboro, Arkansas, reported by Barbara Nellis from radio station KASU in Jonesboro. 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 1118.011.001
ahc.1118.011.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/110
- 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
29:45 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
