- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 16
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1981
- Subject:
- Basket making--South Carolina
Folklore--Tennessee--Clinton
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
White supremacy movements--United States
Racism - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, North Carolina, Forsyth County, Winston-Salem, 36.09986, -80.24422
United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
United States, Tennessee, Anderson County, Clinton, 36.10341, -84.13186 - 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 first segment, which begins at 1:26 is a feature about the relationship between a member of the Ku Klux Klan and his Jewish friend in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The program features audio interview excerpts from Joe Grady, Grand Dragon of the Federated Klans of America; Simon Sosnick a Jewish friend of Grady; Stuart Lowengrub of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith chapter of Atlanta, Georgia. The second segment, which begins at 10:15 is a feature about the lost art of making the marsh grass basket. The program features audio interview excerpts from basketmaker Elizabeth Coakley, and by Patti Just of the South Carolina Radio Network. The third segment, which begins at 16:10 is a feature about a folklife festival at the Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee. The segment features audio of other participants at the festival. The program features audio interview excerpts from museum director John Rice Irwin by Chris Mosier. 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 1118.016.001
ahc.1118.016.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/57
- 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
29:44 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
