- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 136
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1985-06-13
- Subject:
- African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta
Authors, American--Georgia--Atlanta
Neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta
Land use--Georgia--Atlanta
Zoning--Georgia--Atlanta
City planning--Georgia--Atlanta
Bambara, Toni Cade
Missing children
Murder victims - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641
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 feature about a new novel written about the Atlanta Child Murders of the early 1980s by author Toni Cade Bambara. The program features audio excerpts of Bambara reading passages of her book "If Blessin Comes." The second segment, which begins at 15:16, is a feature about development of neighborhoods where residents have been bought out to make way for commercial development in DeKalb County in the Lake Hearn, Kingsboro, and Spring Mill neighborhoods . The program includes audio excerpts from Georgia Tech professor Anthony Cantanese; Paul Kelman of the Atlanta Regional Council; architect Ralph Hisel; MIT professor Dr. William Wheaton, and Georgia State Representative Cathy Steinberg. 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 1118.136.001
ahc.1118.136.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/62
- 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
30:34 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
