https://thebbrm.org/files/original/e59a4ce740dbd8c68b8191eea611149e.jpg 4213c03eeefc9d6499f0ac8f3924c04a https://thebbrm.org/files/original/964d9fb7538cfcdc305e6259421116b6.jpg 407f8ff01ebd2e6b357d4321439a798b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Introducing WBCO Personnel and Featured Stars, Birmingham Weekly Review Description An account of the resource Box 2 Folder 38: "Ok, this is folder 38 and we’re looking at a large Xerox of the front page of the Birmingham Weekly Review, a black-owned newspaper by publisher Robert Durr, from August 16, 1952, which features the staff of WBCO in Bessemer when it was still in the city limits. In the downtown area of Bessemer. It’s a great front page. We have the rest of the paper that features stories about these folks in the archives already, in a larger box we haven’t done yet. The original of this was donated by Lora Walker. That was actually her maiden name. I don’t remember her married name, although it is also in a later file. (Lora Gary). We have a promo card of her from WJLD. Her mother laminated the newpaper and she brought it in. It was a great gift because it describes the staff and also some of the visitors to WBCO in downtown Birmingham. When you read Editor Robert Durr's international analysis, you realize how little has changed in the world." 1950s Andrew "Sugardaddy" Dawkins Birmingham Weekly Review Dr. "B" Erskine Faush Gar Grace Lora (Walker) Gary Monroe Mitchell Robert Durr WBCO