- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 111
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1984-08-09
- Subject:
- Voter turnout--Georgia
Voting--Georgia
Civil rights
Voter registration--Alabama--Pickens County
African Americans--1980-1990
African Americans--Suffrage
Cleland, Max, 1942-
Lowery, Joseph, 1921-
Wilder, Julia
Bozeman, Maggie
Seay, Solomon S., 1931-2015 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Pickens County, 33.28088, -88.08869
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 1:38, is a feature about voting in Georgia. The program focuses on the difficulties faced by African Americans in voting, and 1984 legislation to expand voter registration sites and hours to combat Georgia's low voter turnout. The program features audio excerpts from Reverend Timothy McDonald of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Georgia Secretary of State Max Cleland, and Assistant Georgia Secretary of State Curtis Atkinson. The second segment, which begins at 11:02, is a rebroadcast of a "Southwind" program that aired in 1982 about the case of Maggie Bozeman and Julia Wilder, who were convicted for minor vote fraud allegations in Pickens County, Alabamak but faced harsh sentences. The program features audio excerpts from Reverend Joseph Lowery; Maggie Bozeman; attorney Solomon Seay Jr.; legal services worker Carol Self; John Zippert of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund,
"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 1118.111.001
ahc.1118.111.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/28
- 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
30:18 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
