Stars of WDIA, Memphis
Box 1 Folder 55: "This is box number one number 55. It is a replica of the staff at WDIA Memphis, the first all black-staffed radio station in the United States. Which depicts 5 of its most popular disc jockeys at the time, including who would become a very famous recording artist, Rufus Thomas...
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Box 1 Folder 55: "This is box number one number 55. It is a replica of the staff at WDIA Memphis, the first all black-staffed radio station in the United States. Which depicts 5 of its most popular disc jockeys at the time, including who would become a very famous recording artist, Rufus Thomas. Of course WDIA has a tremendous history; there is a publication you can buy, a book, on the history of WDIA - "Wheelin on Beale" - by Louis Cantor, with a forward by B.B.. King - which is a great book, written by one of the children of the founders of WDIA. If it was all black-staffed doesn’t mean it was all black-owned. The first black-owned station was in Atlanta -WERD - in 1949 as well. And WDIA went on the air about 8 months before WEDR here in Birmingham. Many people appeared on WDIA including BB King and Elvis Presley." |
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Stars of WDIA, MemphisBox 1 Folder 55: "This is box number one number 55. It is a replica of the staff at WDIA Memphis, the first all black-staffed radio station in the United States. Which depicts 5 of its most popular disc jockeys at the time, including who would become a very famous recording artist, Rufus Thomas. Of course WDIA has a tremendous history; there is a publication you can buy, a book, on the history of WDIA - "Wheelin on Beale" - by Louis Cantor, with a forward by B.B.. King - which is a great book, written by one of the children of the founders of WDIA. If it was all black-staffed doesn’t mean it was all black-owned. The first black-owned station was in Atlanta -WERD - in 1949 as well. And WDIA went on the air about 8 months before WEDR here in Birmingham. Many people appeared on WDIA including BB King and Elvis Presley."http://thebbrm.org/item/166http://thebbrm.org/files/original/023f400ab2f127ed6d3e0aca1fb40ac7.jpg |
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