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Walter Anglin, “the Midnight Mover Groover” accompanied by his wife Nora, discuss his early history in Birmingham Black radio.

Box 2 Folder 42: "This is folder 42 which is a picture from about 1952 of Walter Anglin, who later became famous as Little Walter, the "Midnight Mover Groover" when he was on WJLD. He started his career at WEDR as a program director, and this is a…

Box 2 Folder 46: "We’re now on folder 46. It is a social gathering; I’m not sure where the social gathering is taking place. Front and center is Eddie Castleberry surrounded by a group of women. Also, another gentleman to Eddie’s left, or picture…

Box 3 Folder 3: "Okay we’re going to folder number 3. Folder number 3 from October of ‘54. Again Birmingham News radio logs from September 30th thru October 3rd of 1954. WEDR has the Walter Anglin show, and now they’ve changed the frequency…

Box 4 Folder 30: "This is folder 30 which is a picture of the WJLD Singers from 1965. They recorded a 45 called the “WJLD Theme” on the WJLD label and it features Larry Hargrove from upper right clockwise: Larry Hargrove, Johnny Jackson, Walter…

Box 4 Folder 45: "Folder 45 is a… what do you call these…. Folder 45 has two proof sheets, a lot depicting Sam Moore at the radio station in various poses; where the actual negatives are I can only presume. They’d probably be at the McNair Studios.…

Box 4 Folder 46: "Ok we’re up to folder 46 from 1966, is a picture of Walter Anglin. You can see his bad eye in the picture and I believe this picture was from, I’m not sure which photographer took this picture. I estimate this from the mid 1960's at…

Box 5 Folder 6: "Folder 6 is a picture of Walter "Midnight Moover Groover" Anglin when he was at WJLD, from 1967, again from the Chris McNair Studios."

Box 5 Folder 24: "We’re up… we’re up to folder 24 which are a couple pictures of the WJLD staff of 1968 showing (l-r) Ronald Jackson, Willie McKinstry, Jimmy Lawson, Andrew Fields, and Walter Anglin. Now, the description on the back of the smaller…

Box 5 Folder 30: "Folder 30 from 1969. These are contact sheets from Chris McNair Studios, who gave us a bunch of negatives and we printed these positives. It’s a sample sheet that includes pictures of Jimmy Lawson, Andrew Fields, Willie McKinstrey,…