- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 7
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1981-02-06
- Subject:
- Industrialization--Tennessee
Industries--Tennessee--Smyrna
Race discrimination
Race relations
Social justice - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Sumter County, 32.59101, -88.19879
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Tennessee, Rutherford County, Smyrna, 35.98284, -86.5186 - Medium:
- radio programs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This recording opens with singer Bessie Jones' rendition of "Preachin the Blues" and an introduction of the program by Boyd Lewis. The entire program is a feature about economic growth in the South and includes a dispatch from Tennessee that begins at 2:08, about the opening of a Nissan automotive plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, and its potential effects on the community. The feature includes audio interview clips of Rutherford County official, Bob Beatty, and Rutherford County School Superintendent, Elan Crawford. The second part of the feature is a report that begins at 8:59 about the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in predominantly African American Sumter County, Alabama, and includes audio Sumter County tax assessor Joe Stegall; U.S. Attorney J.R. Brooks; Curly Morrow of Mantua, Alabama; several officials of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives (FSC), including Cleo Askew, John Zippart, Wendy Paris, and Charles Prejan. The segment focuses on federal investigations surrounding the organization. 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 1118.007.001
ahc.1118.007.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/52
- 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
29:08 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
