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.

Record Contributed By

Atlanta History Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia