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Box 5 Folder 1: "Ok, this is box 5, folder 1, pictures of the entrance, just barely, to the WJLD studios at 109 North 19th Street. The entrance is in the lower right hand corner and that’s the building. We just happen to have a picture that showed…

Box 4 Folder 50: "All right, folder 50 dated 1966, this a letter from Joan Crawford, from London, England, writing to Otis Dodge, thanking him for making a press conference for her very successful in Birmingham. “Bless you and happy Thanksgiving to…

Box 4 Folder 27: "Moving along, we are at folder 27 which is a 39 page 6" x 8" booklet entitled Music Memories and Jazz Report, Vol 4, No. 2, and published in Birmingham. Volume 4 would mean they began in 1961. We don’t know who they were but they…

Box 4 Folder 19: "Here we have a series of six newspaper clippings from 1963 including references to the civil rights struggles in Birmingham and elsewhere and as well, references to new personnel at WJLD 1400 AM."

Box 4 Folder 16: "Folder 16 contains an extraordinary find...Hooper radio ratings from the period September through November, 1962. The documentation is so important that the entire book is shared. At least two significant facts unearthed. The first…

Box 4 Folder 9: "Folder 9 contains a wonderful piece of history. An eight page folder commemorating the fifth anniversary (1956 - 1961) of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, founded by Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, listing the officers and…

Box 3 Folder 38: "Up to folder 38 is 1957. It is a picture of Birmingham City Hall and it’s a breakdown of the budget from Birmingham City Hall from 1957. The city commission at that time, 1957, they were moving away from the city commission I…

Box 2 Folder 29: "From the Birmingham Post Herald, it says Bessemer News. “WJLD transmitter moved to Birmingham”. Radio station WJLD has moved its transmitter from Bessemer to Red Mountain in Birmingham, and this was July 21, 1952. That’s very…

Box 2 Folder 17: "We’re up to folder 17, which is a tower, part of, well know it’s not part it’s from April 1950 referring to raising the land valuation. This is a protest by the Johnston Manufacturing Company, the original owner company of WJLD,…

Box 1 Folder 59: "All right moving on to box 1 folder 59 from 1949. A lovely little folder, very creatively done by ‘Les Fieres Coeurs’. They were a female…they were a women’s organization, and they were announcing a dance that they were going to…