February 19, 1999
Book Details the Key Role of Radio in African-American Communities
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In the mid-1950s, when the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., wanted to issue a public statement, he sometimes simply banged on the ceiling of his office in Atlanta with a broomstick. The disk jockey upstairs at radio station WERD would tell listeners to stand by for an important announcement. Then he'd lower a microphone out the window to the civil-rights leader. |
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