- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 123
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1984-11-29
- Subject:
- Pro-choice movement--Georgia--Atlanta
Reproductive health--Georgia--Atlanta
Education--Georgia
Planned Parenthood Federation of America - 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 1:23, is a segment the Planned Parenthood organization in Atlanta. The program features audio excerpts from Barbara Lebo, a playwright who created a musical celebrating the 20th anniversary of Planned Parenthood Atlanta that was shown at the Academy Theater in Atlanta in 1984. Other people featured in the segment are Kay Bard, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Atlanta; Esther Taylor, founder of Planned Parenthood Atlanta; Dr. Robert Hatcher of Grady Hospital; Dr. Luella Klein of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Dr. Edward Brandt, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. The program touches on the dangers of violence faced by Planned Parenthood chapters, citing the firebombing of a Planned Parenthood in Marietta, Georgia. The second segment, which begins at 14:21, is a feature about the hiring of math teachers from West Germany to address the shortage of such teachers in Georgia. The program features audio excerpts from Dr. Werner Rogers, Assistant Superintendent of Education for the State of Georgia; Thomas Krane, a teacher from Germany; William Fund, principal of Decatur High School, as well as representatives of the Goethe Institute. 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 1118.123.001
ahc.1118.123.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/56
- 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
30:35 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
