10 10 504 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/78a240235bba2feaa1e50b27b31d0fa4.jpg 5bfe9327a6b02ddb2339942e04e12237 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/dc7a5fab91d154581d5741dfc2156653.jpg 4fcfc336ed4801bd961711aee62f8410 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, "Negro Candidate for Lt. Governor" Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 42: "A clipping from the Traverse City Eagle in Michigan (been there) announcing Perry "Tiger" Thompson's running in the Democratic Primary in 1958 for Lieutenant Governor." 1950s Politics Tiger Thompson Traverse City Record Eagle https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/62417b10bc0c5fc924d030aa102706a5.jpg 390f1c633b03c8ac91408685796f31ce 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, "Pint Sized Deejay Fills Airways With Christian Message, Music" Description An account of the resource Box 8 Folder 29: "Moving along to folder 29, a clipping from March 10, 1985 with disc jockey, Paul Baker Jr. helping his father play records at WAYE. And WAYE was always a gospel station and was purchased by Gary Richardson in 2011 and reinitiated on the air. This clipping from the Birmingham News, March 10, 1985, gives you a little view of the inside of the studio. WAYE. And, of course, that would be in the building that is no longer in existence on Avenue W from the Bessemer Rd location. Found by Bob Friedman." 1980s Birmingham News Paul Baker Paul Edmondson WAYE https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/328827e440d22ea8ada7ddd22d3855d4.jpg 109ed7ce385598639771abc10fb60226 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, "Radio, female variety" Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 41: "We’re now at folder 41 from 1958 which has an article “The new radio station for Bessemer application for which was duly posted in the news. It’s going to be a truly new sound in radio if the federal communication okays the station. This will be an all girls radio station similar to WHER in Memphis.” And the applicant for the station of 1000 watts at 50 kilocycles is James Connelly, used to be the manager… was the manager at this time of WJLD. “Connolly has applied for the call letters WSHE.” Would have been 1550 AM but never came to pass, but Jim was, as we know from seeing him as a manager, a salesperson, all that, and knew the ins and outs of radio, ...taking a shot at ownership. Made a copy of the Bham News article found at the Main Library in Birmingham." 1950s Bessemer Jim Connolly WSHE https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/c88a1e12cc6db083ee1092fe21cd8dd4.jpg 6edf710a889b87d7f7d5870bc0ad6262 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, "Reverend Little Howard Scott Pioneer Cited" Description An account of the resource Box 8 Folder 54: "Moving along to folder 54 is a copy of a clipping from December 7, 1989 about the 45th Anniversary of Reverend Howard Scott, Little Howard Scott, being on the air. This probably from the Birmingham Times as well. Little Howard Scott, who was a long time broadcaster, a gospel broadcaster, and a reverend, would have started in 1944. I’m not sure where he started in 1944. This was an appeal to the church community to honor his work and to contribute as well. People can read something about his history. His picture is somewhere else in the ephemera collection." 1980s Birmingham Times Howard Scott WJLD https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/8ada247ec0fa3aa6a76adc0800abda6e.jpg 581457ec476e198840cb17a64b4e7301 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/b407de81f67f17897a017a39f456424f.jpg e691c8f10f0775472bd16c4602809361 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, "Smooth Talker" Description An account of the resource Box 8 Folder 57: "Alright, we’re moving along now to 57. Folder 57, We have a clipping in two parts from the Birmingham News, July 14, 1989, an interview with Erskine Faush. And a lot of good history here. He’s in the studio at WATV and much can be said about the man. He’s certainly been on the air longer than anybody else. 1951 is when he started. And it’s an article worth reading about Erskine Fausch." 1980s Birmingham News Erskine Faush WATV https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/fcb578f0112d509f727fb04796ca60b2.jpg 1d5f3fad466b79160a2a523e0c84e527 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, "Station WYAM Unfair" Description An account of the resource Box 4 Folder 8: "Folder number 8 is a newspaper article probably from the Birmingham Post Herald from September 6, 1960 announcing that the radio engineers local union 253 IBEW is going out on strike against WYAM in Bessemer, which would have been probably 1450 at the time. YAM was short lived; it existed in between WBCO and…whatever station followed WYAM. I’m trying to remember what it was, but um…WSMQ. WSMQ. They were asking folks not to shop WYAM. Ben Franklin was President of the local at that time." 1960s Birmingham Post Herald International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Unions WYAM https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/3bcee558b0bcf43fbb99d8672cd38e02.jpg dc2d3150f8d3c58be99005bcd6aa26f8 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/f917ad4a94354360577fd41120f02af9.jpg 7a9a91738a68cca92f00b5df9b69c546 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, "WBCO To Observe 5th Anniversary" Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 20: "Now this is a total mystery. It is a blow up of something I got from Ed McClure, Johnny Jive. He’s a veteran of World War II. I didn’t realize that. It lists Andrew Dawkins, Bruce Payne, Arthur Whatley, Erskine Fausch, and Laura Walker. It talks about WBCO. There’s an anniversary program on Sunday, special anniversary for Dunbar High School has been planned and there will be a bunch of people. Reverend Howard Scott will be there. Didn’t know he was doing stuff…. I’m trying to see whether or not… Yeah it’s the fifth anniversary of BCO, so we figure it was 1955. The Bells of Zion, the Starlights, and the Delta Aires. The Delta Aires. I should make a copy of this for Auguster Maul and his group. The Delta Aires, still singing today. Yeah, Auguster Mauls, the head of the Delta Aires. LWR: How do you spell that? The Aires. BF: “D-E-L-T-A” and then “A-I-R-E-S”. Might have been two words might have been one word. I don’t remember. Donated by Ed McClure. Also in Folder 20 is an 8-picture flyer with WBCO staff from my approximation, 1954. proclaiming, "WBCO employs eight negro announcers!" The flyer was obviously used by both sales staff and announcers. Starting from upper left: King Porter at the piano, Erskine Faush, Ed "Johnny Jive" McClure, Arthur "Juke the Duke" Whaley, Garfield Grace, Charles "Deacon Luther" Whatley, Erskine Faush again, and Lora Walker. Donated for copying by Ed McClure." 1950s Andrew "Sugardaddy" Dawkins Arthur Whatley Bruce Payne Ed "Johnny Jive" McClure Erskine Faush Lora (Walker) Gary WBCO https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/114c9a8ff0f42d103fed901135891fc8.jpg a31fc27e2b2d947aaadbdafd0c9ff08b 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, "WENN Sold to Atlanta Based Firm" Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 10: "Ok we’re in folder 10, looking at a copy of an article probably from the Birmingham News dated…. No, the Birmingham Post Herald, dated May 6, 1971, indicating that Hertz Broadcasting of Birmingham has purchased radio station ENN and FM from Joe Mack Birmingham Corporation for more than $800,000. More than $800,000. This is the license transfer that… well, it’s interesting to me. It says “The license transfer, which was approved Tuesday by the FCC, closed out all of Joe Mack’s broadcasting property in the nation as stipulated by the will of John M. McClendon, late president of the company, according to WENN’s general manager, Joe Lackey.” And we’ve talked about John McClendon in the past. It also points out that he owned five radio stations in the southeast, six radio stations in Costa Rica, a television station in Jackson, MS. His wish was that all of his stuff be sold right after his death. This is from 1971 and this company, Hertz, based in Atlanta, Georgia, purchased the station for $804,000. The company owns two radio stations in Georgia, an advertising firm in Atlanta. Lackey said they’ll be no format or personnel changes at the station because of the transfer. The thing that’s interesting is that they talk about it as the station rather than the stations, which would lead you to believe at this time they were simulcasting on AM and FM and fundamentally on AM. Although, yeah this is before… this is pre-A.G. Gaston because A.G. Gaston’s name is used as the initials AGG which is where WENN AM would have transferred its name to. So what we’re looking at here is the McClendon family giving up its ownership to an Atlanta based company of 1320 and it’s not clear to me that they have purchased 107.7 as a frequency although they indicate that there is an AM and an FM frequency associated with a McClendon ownership so I would presume that the only thing that could mean is that they own 107.7, but were not broadcasting as a stand alone FM station. There’s more research needed here. From the Bham Library archives." 1970s Birmingham Post Herald Hertz Broadcasting Joe Lackey McLendon Broadcasting Company WENN https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/73543ebea2e13ed70321bc262efac1a9.jpg c84e2e34958021b076b6a907c7fbb3f3 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, "What the Negros are Doing - Dr. Trenholm to Speak at Ullman." Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 15: "We are now on folder 15. This is an article entitled “What Negroes are Doing: Dr. Trenholm, President of Alabama State College for Negroes in Montgomery, Alabama is the commencement speaker at Ullman High School in Birmingham scheduled for Jan21, 1955. This from the Birmingham News from January 16, 1955. Which we determined already is a Sunday. Looking over it, it just talks about, I’m not sure by looking at this unless I take the time to figure out why I put it in here as to whether it was just a reflection of the time or if it was something specific to a particular radio station. However, little advertisement for "Negroes" : “In the event of death always call Smith and Gaston the South’s finest Negro funeral directors.” " 1950s Birmingham News Ullman High School https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/e99f01c99935caff8e82a0514b7a6c64.jpg 50862a31f519122c2f56bfa955f618b2 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/c56280182bc3538752c22238b4bb47b7.jpg 553a71f683c22c16d6667c2e548a42fb 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, All-Negro Station Goes On Air Sunday Description An account of the resource Box 1 Folder 48: "Box number 1 and we are at number 48, and this is the announcement of WEDR going on the air…will open on Sunday, September 4, so this clipping is not from Sunday, September 4 but another time. Wouldn’t that be nice if it was there…but it is here. This clipping is from September 2, and the first airing of the station was September 4, but the clipping from the Birmingham Post Herald was from September 2. That’s the weirdest 9 anyone’s ever, ever (LWR: why?) It looks like a note. And it goes on to describe Mr. Ed Reynolds who was the general manager and the president of WEDR. It also lists John Thompson, secretary and treasurer and Mrs. Leah L. Doss, vice president, which was J. Leslie Doss’s wife. She was involved with the beginning of WEDR, and it also mentions that Ed Reynolds had been in radio for about 20 years, so we’re talking 1929. This man had a long history in radio; it’d be interesting to follow his development as well. Clipping goes on to say that the station will take no political, racial, beer, or wine advertising and will have no discussion on political or racial questions. Brr, it makes you cold thinking about that today. And that was 1949. Birmingham." 1940s Birmingham Post Herald Ed Reynolds J. L. Doss John Thompson Leah L. Doss WEDR