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Rick Upshaw, WGOW
Box 6 Folder 8: "Here we go to folder 8, picture of Rick Upshaw from when he was at WGOV in Chattanooga, and we got his mailing address. He was at WJLD for one year in 1967, this from 1971, and we had some contact with him in the ‘90s. He helped us…
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Rick Upshaw, WGOW, WJLD
Fred Shuttlesworth, Oral History
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth (b. March 18, 1922; d. October 5, 2011) - founder, Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) in 1956. Major organizer and activist of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement with Dr. Martin Luther King. Pastor, Bethel…
Lewis White, Oral History
Lewis White (b. Nov 5, 1932, d. Mar 16, 2017), a broadcaster with WJLD from 1958 to 1972, His show was a weekender characterized as a jazz show later on in his career; however, the BBRM has one of his shows from the early 1960’s that is a total mix.…
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Andrew "Sugardaddy" Dawkins, Atomic Boogie Hour, Ben Alexander, Bob Umbach, Bombing, Civil Rights, Ed "Johnny Jive" McClure, Eddie Castleberry, Erskine Faush, Fletcher "Jive Master" Kolb, Fred Shuttlesworth, James Garland, Jesse Champion, Jim Connolly, Jimmy Lawson, KKK, Leland Chiles, Lewis White, Madame Lamar, McLendon Broadcasting Company, Mickey Wills, Paul "Tall Paul" White, Rick Upshaw, Robert Delander, Roy Wood, Shelley "The Playboy" Stewart, Sonrose Rutledge, Tiger Thompson, Trumon Puckett, WATV, WBCO, WEDR, Wiley Daniels, Willie McKinstry, WJLD, WJLN, WVOK