- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 53
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1982-10-15
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers
Neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta
Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982
National Urban League - 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 1:20, is a feature produced by Beatrice Black of the South Carolina Education Network about a resident of the Hermitage House in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, who believes the house is haunted by the ghost of Alice Flagg. The second segment, which begins at 4:58, is a feature about the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. The program features audio excerpts from local resident Jeffrey Lauderback; Atlanta food critic Bill Cutler, Atlanta City Councilman Bill Campbell, and unidentified neighborhood residents. The third segment, which begins at 13:03, is a feature about civil rights leader Heman Sweatt. The program features audio excerpts from Mike Joliet of the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library; Diane Ellison, Clarence Thomas, and Ken Crooks of the National Urban League; Clarence Coleman, formerly of the Atlanta Urban League, and Atlanta University School of Social Work Dean Benjamin Lewis. 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 1118.053.001
ahc.1118.053.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/40
- 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
28:52 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
