Southwind No. 89

Collection:: Southwind recordings
Title:: Southwind No. 89
Creator:: Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
Date of Original:: 1984-03-01
Subject:: Voter registration--Alabama--Greene County
Georgia--Politics and government
Politicians--Georgia
Political participation--Georgia--Atlanta
Parades--Georgia
Elections--Georgia
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 retrospective on the evolution of the program Southwind and features short clips from segments aired in the past, as well as clips from the WABE program Fortnight, which preceded Southwind. Clips include audio from a Ku Klux Klan rally in north central Alabama in the 1970s; a stone sculpture later knows as the Georgia Guidestone monument in Elbert County, Georgia; a segment on the African American vote; a segment about artisan Minnie Black of Kentucky; a segment about the political barbecue, featuring Herman Talmade; a segment about Rita Emerson, a preacher in West Virginia; a feature about the Tombigbee waterway in Alabama; and a series of unidentified clips. 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 1118.089.001
ahc.1118.089.001
Metadata URL:: http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/33
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
29:34
Original Collection:: Southwind recordings
Holding Institution:: Atlanta History Center
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