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Clipping, "DJ Shelly Stewart Apparently "Fired" Following Reported "Suicide Scare""
Box 4 Folder 37: "We are now at folder 37. This is a copy of an article (we have the original) that was in the Birmingham World from April 7, 1965 talking about DJ Shelly Stewart, who was in St. Louis at the time and working for the Katz Radio…
Obituary, William Pope
Box 3 Folder 54: "Folder 54 contains the obituary for William Pope, famous Gospel concert promoter during the 1940's and 50's in Birmingham. It was listed in the Birmingham World and his date of passing was December 9, 1959. I believe him to have…
Obituary, Roberta Roland
Box 3 Folder 17: "In Folder 17, we have the obituary of Ms, Roberta Roland, a gospel radio announcer, promoter and active in the Birmingham community. Several people recollected her taking food to the poor or picking people up and taking them places.…
Advertisement, Eddie "Clean Head" Vinson
Box 2 Folder 19: "We are now up to folder 19. I obtained this from microfiche from the Birmingham World. It is dated April 7, 1950. Eddie “Clean Head” Vincent coming to town in April of 1950, again. Also sponsored by the same folks Epps, the North…
Contracts, Entertainment
Box 2 Folder 7: "Moving right along to folder 7, which is a contract that we got also we found this, I believe, from the Birmingham World when they were open. They closed a while ago. These are actual contracts, or copies of contracts, from the…
Clippings, Ben Alexander, WEDR
Box 2 Folder 6: "Here’s another picture that was sent from Ben Alexander, which actually has a picture of Ben Alexander. It’s number 6, folder 6. We are now looking at 2 copies sent to us from Ben Alexander. We’re not sure exactly where this came…
Clipping, Black Barons
Box 2 Folder 3: "Folder 3 is a clipping from the Birmingham World dated April 25, 1950 again microfiche from their archives from the Birmingham library advertising the Black Barons at Rickwood Field for a double header playing the Chicago American…
Clipping, Buddy Johnson
Box 2 Folder 2: "Moving along to folder number 2 is a clipping of microfiche that came out of the Birmingham World archives in the public library in Birmingham with a picture of Buddy Johnson coming to the city auditorium on March 24 unfortunately,…
Clippings, Entertainment
Box 1 Folder 46: "OK moving to box 1 number 46 are a number of clippings from the Birmingham World newspaper from 1948. They describe many activities going on in the city of Birmingham. Some commentary can be seen on national issues as well. Various…