- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 74
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1983-08-15
- Subject:
- Civil rights
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights movements - People:
- Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912-1982
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 - 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 entire program is a feature on the organizing for the March on Washington that took place in the summer of 1983. The event marked the 20th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington led by A. Philip Randolph. The program also looks at the importance of Heman Sweatt in the Civil Rights Movement. The program features audio excerpts from Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis; Coretta Scott King; activist Stanley Wise; Mike Jolliett of the Lyndon Johnson Library; Diane Ellison, Clarence Coleman, and Ken Crooks of the National Urban League, and Benjamin Lewis of Atlanta University. 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 1118.074.001
ahc.1118.074.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/6
- 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
29:14 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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