- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 99
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1984-05-17
- Subject:
- Segregation--United States
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982 - 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 1:18, is a feature about the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas. The decision declared state sanctioned segregation in schools unconstitutional. The program includes audio excerpts from Dr. Robert Brisbane of Morehouse College; Marsha Klenhort of Apple Corps, Inc; Vivian Malone Jones, who desegregated the University of Alabama in 1963, and Atlantan Mark Lybrand, who was the only white student in his class at Benjamin E. Mays High School. The second segment, which begins at 14:02, is a rebroadcast of an earlier "Southwind" program about civil rights activist Heman Sweatt. The program includes audio excerpts from Mike Jolliett of the Lyndon Johnson Library; Diane Ellison of the National Urban League, and Clarence Coleman, Ken Crooks, Benjamin Lewis, and Clarence Thomas of the Atlanta Urban League. 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 1118.099.001
ahc.1118.099.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/31
- 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
29:48 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
