- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 9
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1981-03-06
- Subject:
- Prostitution
Elementary schools - 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 and Faye McDonald Smith. The entire program is a feature titled "They're Killing Our Children. An Atlanta Tragedy." The feature is about the Atlanta child murders, which took place between 1979 and 1981. The program features audio interview clips of Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown; Tony Mathis, a 13-year old Jonesboro resident, and his aunt, Dorothy; Carolyn Turner, PTA president of Scott Elementary School and Father Patrick Bishop of St. Anthony's Church, and Mrs. Helen Pugh. Other interviewees include mothers of victims, including Celina Cobb, Fannie Mae Smith and Venus Taylor. The recording also includes various unidentified voices of children and adults in Jonesboro. The feature includes a commentary at 17:42 by Atlanta author Pearl Lomax. At 21:52, Carrine Brown and Grace Davis are interviewed about how African American children are defended. 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 1118.009.001
ahc.1118.009.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/120
- 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
29:59 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
