- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 142
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1985-09-05
- Subject:
- Civil rights
Political activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Apartheid
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
King, Bernice A. - 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 entire program is a feature about the parallels of the Civil Rights Movement in the American South and independence movements in African nations. The focus is the anti-Apartheid movement against the government of South Africa. The program features audio excerpts from Morehouse College President Dr. Hugh Gloster; Howard University student Mpho Tutu, daughter of Bishop Desmond Tutu; Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis; Georgia State Senator Julian Bond; Atlanta businessman Dillard Munford; Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Jr., and John Studstill of Georgia State University; 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 1118.142.001
ahc.1118.142.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/30
- 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
29:52 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
