https://thebbrm.org/files/original/4464b80b3ba879efff5cd71efa5a6f5d.jpg c4bb03faf048b15fa60affca57ece996 https://thebbrm.org/files/original/7238c96703b0eb2d014bbb8c0b400ff3.jpg 5e275732a0f4b241e92e978763db7f3f https://thebbrm.org/files/original/d06346fb303e4f78ee7bb10b6db659be.jpg 61c7d2d47b2c46d8c48da6a77a2547e4 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 Clipping, "KKK Signs Painted on Building - Negro Radio Station Warned 'Get Off the Air and Stay Off'" Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 46: "Now we move to folder 46 which are a series of clippings. These are clippings. This is one clipping that is where WEDR, where Shelley Stewart was at, “KKK” was written on WEDR. $5000 worth of vandalism. Ed Estes operated the station at this time, in Pensacola as well, another in Mobile, says “the first trouble he has experienced came, May 17th, when someone cut the support cables on the WEDR tower, causing the $5000 tower to fall to the ground.” Now as we all remember this is the second all black staffed radio station in the United States. “Estes offered a $1000 reward for the conviction. Engineers who checked the tower periodically told Estes on several occasions they’d found dead dogs with their throats cut at the base of the tower.” These are just horrible Klan activity. This was May 3rd, 1958. LWR: That looks like May 30th. BF: 30th. May 30th. God knows why any of this ever survived. “We stay completely out of controversial issues,” he said, “and we do not accept political announcements under any circumstances. All this trouble is from agitators and troublemakers” is what Ed Estes thought. Agitators and troublemakers. Ok. “One caller threatened to level the building with the ground. Perry Tiger Thompson, a Negro former announcer for EDR, entered the first primary race for lieutenant governor, but withdrew after a brief campaign. Estes said he is no longer an announcer for the station.” Ok. Pretty terrible. From the BN or BPH archives." 1950s Ed Estes KKK Shelley "The Playboy" Stewart Tiger Thompson WEDR