- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 166
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1986-08-21
- Subject:
- Elections--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government
Theaters--Georgia--Atlanta
Alliance Theater (Atlanta, Ga.)
Gospel at Colonus (Choreographic work) - People:
- Young, Andrew, 1932-
- Location:
- 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 first segment, which begins at 1:26, is a feature about the election in the Georgia Fifth District for the United States Congress, pitting civil rights leaders John Lewis and Julian Bond. The program features audio excerpts from Bond and Lewis; former Georgia state senator Mildred Glover; Jan Douglass, and political operative Preston Love. The second segment, which begins at 15:58, is a feature about theater collaborations between white and black theater communities. The program features audio excerpts fromf Fulton County Commission Chairman Michael Lomax; Byron Saunders of Just Us theater company; Margaret Cox of the Coca Cola Foundation; Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young Jr., and Edith Love of the Alliance Theater. 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 1118.166.001
ahc.1118.166.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/139
- 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
29:04 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
