13 10 504 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/8b12be6ebdc98ccc42b617f3c16d488b.jpg 9faba46c3ac23092616f6dfc168a6fc7 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/184c8c0ad6deea01beecf4fde8deb996.jpg 280912bb78fb2c23d69e4ce465aaf09f https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/092586e754623cfdf2448cfdaacdecb9.jpg 51665e5939192da4d7a9205b72f48305 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 1 Folder 24: "This is box 1 number 24, which is a series of radio logs from 1945 microfiched from the Birmingham Library archives. and which included the first radio log listing for WJLD on March 27, 1945. Not sure of all the publications but b1f24b is definitely from the Birmingham New Age Herald which owned WSGN." 1940s Birmingham New Age Herald Birmingham Public Library Radio Logs WJLD WSGN https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/4c41c81a9a77b4347875473febf65696.jpg 3c519a261302cadffd50914828d15c1f https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/c2e1131520e34183db2ecc0a0e7e59ab.jpg 28653b3de01a8b8b42f1137a893b2fd2 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/3529f87952bbe1362a27f4ba23487ca2.jpg 3c737f77fa0fe1c23abff42b68fc2845 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/b2b2ed64681b64b089dcdbe59bfd7c0d.jpg a3268ee600484b089a849334bbe7b93e 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 1 Folder 30: "Box 1 number 30. These are a series of radio log copies from the Birmingham Library microfiche files from 1946, probably from the Birmingham New Age Herald. And 1946 was the beginning of the Atomic Boogie Hour at WJLD and that was very very significant in terms of the kind of race music that was played back then. Bob Umbach was the jock, and he was a very popular jock. He was also very involved in the black community, and he was white, tall, handsome and there is more to be said about him when we reach his picture. But these radio logs do describe black programming, which again involved Rev. W.A. Clark. The April 7th Sunday log also mentioned W.J. Allen in the morning on WJLD. WJ went on to broadcast gospel on both WEDR and WENN AM. The Pope Singers are mentioned, referring to gospel promoter William Pope. In looking at the other radio stations besides WJLD we can see that W.A Clark was also on WSGN. It does not appear that WBRC really had black programming at the time, nor did WAPI. Still only 4 stations in the market: SGN, BRC, API, and JLD as of April 9, 1946, and the Atomic Boogie Hour for the first time we see them mentioned around 2 o’clock in the afternoon on April 9, 1946, looks like the first time the Atomic Boogie Hour gets described in the radio logs: "Red hot and blue jive."" 1940s Atomic Boogie Hour Birmingham New Age Herald Bob Umbach Radio Logs W. A. Clark W. J. Allen WJLD https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/712fea6523c93beb99d6aee865d17ef3.jpg 496f6b3b1d9f929b53f05d3b07d63a53 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/aa0e39d3d16498203ffbe3194821eb32.jpg 7627abdf242ccdd110e93122fd9ad338 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/8bb00bf753403d8956558f0c8dbe702f.jpg 0bdd0c92c23b24521c6ac821e4f98054 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/49d0cfe718084ec3bcc94b42157ddae4.jpg c06c1ba498343a31e77fdadab0de29ac 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 1 Folder 35: "This is box number 1, number 35. Radio logs from February 23, April 27th, April 28th and April 29th of 1947. Which now shows five radio stations in the market WTNB being the new addition from 1490. Does not appear that they were carrying black programming; however, we do see that WJLD, this is a Sunday listing, that WJLD has numerous black programming at this time. Sunday programming includes the Kelley Choral Singers, the Blevins Aggregation, the Big Three Singers, the Shelby County Four, the Poole Singers. It’s interesting because they are mixed in with mystery broadcasting which is national in nature like The Shadow and detective mysteries, Nick Carter Master Detective; I listened to all of these when I was a kid. The Tuesday April 29th log shows the Heavenly Gospel Four (possibly Don Solomon's group) surrounded by the Atomic Boogie Hour. The Atomic Boogie Hour is certainly playing Black artists and here we see a gospel group during the week. Later on in the evening St. Peter’s Church which would be W.A. Clark so WJLD certainly leading at this point in terms of black programming of the stations that were on the air at the time, although any Black programming at this point was only on Sundays." 1940s Atomic Boogie Hour Birmingham New Age Herald Blevins Aggregation Kelley Choral Singers Radio Logs W. A. Clark WAPI WBRC WJLD WSGN WTNB https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/48b912b4e61be8ea07dd23233c0e747d.jpg b70ec40d4a4b0a78e9a6ad3591edf4ae 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 1 Folder 43: "Box 1 number 43 is a radio log from 1948, which shows 5 radio stations, the new addition being WTNB 1490 which was short-lived. There is nothing at that frequency in the city at this point. But as far as black programming is concerned, from 1948 the Atomic Boogie Hour is listed, the actual time, 5 PM in the evening. It does not appear, I’m looking at WSGN which used to have some black programming, obviously, perhaps at the 5 PM slot on Friday where it says echoes of the southern spirituals and then the groove, jam and jive, maybe that was black programming, maybe jazz at SGN, unclear. But the Atomic Boogie Hour is on on April 1, 1948." 1940s Birmingham New Age Herald Radio Logs WAPI WJLD WSGN WTNB https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/482abd39ae0e3767bbdef52f12683e57.jpg 8ec2362895c18d730ee76bffc8e70218 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/94b632b2f5265ea83bf5a788e09cf654.jpg 1aeb1b7fa002872bafdc949ca224a3e4 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 2 Folder 25: "This folder from 1952, April 1, 1952, a Tuesday, and this one from April 10; there’s two actually. Wait a minute, they’re both from April 1, 1952; that’s just shmutz. And what these do... they list the radio stations, not clear whether they were listed in the Birmingham News or the Birmingham World. Okay. They list WBCO at 1450 and the lineup. Now, there is an 8 o’clock show called the Gospel Cavalcade. If anybody knows what Erskine Fausch calls his show, it’s the Gospel Cavalcade. And at this time Erskine Fausch would have been at WBCO. So we know that he’d been on the air continuously with the Gospel Cavalcade for some 60 years. W e also know that the Cavalcade was started by William Faush, Erskine’s older brother (by 6 years) and that they were on together at times or on different shifts, so said William. Okay, also when it says Humming with Honey that’s obviously Honey Brown although there were two Honey Browns and we have a pix of the second, the female Honey. The first we don’t have a pix of but he was a male Honey. Sessions with Gar, that’s Gar Grace. Rhythm Train, Jet Powered Jive Ship that was I believe, Bruce Payne. Now here's their error, I believe. They left out the heading for WEDR because that's Reveling with Eddie, well that’s Eddie Castleberry, waking folks up at 6 in the morning again, and let’s see anybody else we notice. The Tan Town Jubilee, we don’t know who that is. Shopping Bag Capers, I guess maybe a show for women of the time. Flying Saucers that was of course, flying saucers meaning the records, and remember that these guys did more than one shift. Moving to the next page, or further down, WJLN 104.7 from 1952 doesn’t, I mean, they signed on at 5 and signed off at 10 and that was it. WJLN on Wednesday had the Atomic Boogie Hour 104.7. So people could hear at 3 o’clock Bob Umbach all over the place if they had an FM receiver . And WJLD had its own broadcast schedule, but also had Mr. Puckett’s show, which was of course Trumon Puckett at 8 in the morning, then the Bob Umbach show at 10 o’clock. Then at 1 o’clock the Atomic Boogie Hour, so Bob was on a lot cause he was on at a different time at 3 o’clock on the fm. He’d walk…at this time, in 1952, the station is transitioning from Bessemer Superhighway to Red Mountain. And then, you also see that Joe Rumore’s on on WVOK. Of course that’s not black radio, but he did several shifts. And we have the Crusader’s Quartet, which may have been a black quartet I don’t know, and that is what we have to say about these clippings. We do show WLBS 900, which we don’t know very much about, but it was on the air at the time. Looks like my mom's sewing machine in the ad." 1950s Atomic Boogie Hour Bob Umbach Eddie Castleberry Erskine Faush Gospel Cavalcade Joe Rumore Radio Logs Trumon Puckett WBCO WJLD WJLN WLBS WVOK https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/48067b6bdaa0732dbc21c097fd587246.jpg 8310ab41fc010db144763efb2802aaff https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/072ac3bf557fb4887beec0040128e455.jpg f03b6a91fa666ded3ed1927a19d791af https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/115ca27915c00bb87472903314cd42ef.jpg 9fe266244945f2b0b18cd1caeb78fb6e 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 2 Folder 56: "Alright, moving on to folder 56. 56 contains some radio logs. Trying to determine if they are all the same. They are not. The three radio logs are from April 1st of 1953, April 4th of ‘53, and April 5th of ’53, and they describe the radio stations that were on at the time. They don’t contain all of them. There wasn’t enough room for SGN and API but they do contain WEDR, WJLD, and WBCO which were the three black oriented stations. They also indicate that WJLD had a 104.7 megacycle FM station, JLN. And you can see who was on back in 1953 on all three radio stations. Some of the listings do not include the name of the disc jockey and some do. So for research purposes, might be interesting. Ok." 1950s Radio Logs WAFM WBCO WBRC WEDR WILD WJLD WJLN https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/d717802a1872154f3b47794e2993230d.jpg fe68ecb0a09bd0b0f0444551a5d71dc8 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/f4aa4db7f4d2ef7231a54b08afa46fb9.jpg 169257a002a2b03159d6c8dc475bd980 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 2: "Here we go into April of ’54. Again this is folder number 2 of box 3. We have again EDR still misidentified in terms of the frequency. JLD and BCO. WJLD’s April 11th log has spiritual music with Floyd King. And Floyd King is BJ Love King’s uncle I believe. The Willing Workers. WJ Allen is at WJLD. He is strictly a gospel jock. So that’s a Sunday. Lots of religious music on WBCO as well. The Harmonettes is listed on WBCO. WJLD was still playing Eddie Fischer, Guy Lombardo, Dennis Day... The Four Knights are listed; their music at WJLD. They were obviously still doing black and white programming at this point. Roberta Roland is doing spiritual music and she is somebody that we don’t know very much about except that we think that Edward Chevrolet donated a Chevy for her because she was picking up poor people and taking them shopping or something to that effect. (Since the time of the first post edit, we finally located an obituary and picture for Ms. Roland which will appear in 1955. Don Solomon also talks about her as a gospel promoter in the 1940's). WEDR on Sunday, the famous Kings of Harmony, the Gospel Five, the Gospel Aires. WJ Allen is on WEDR and WJLD at the same time, or at least he’s listed as such on April 11th. April 1st would be April Fool’s day but it would not be a Sunday and WEDR lists Eddie Castleberry and it looks like Bruce Payne, Elder Moore whoever that is. Mr. Puckett is still on JLD with Duke Rumore and Willie McKinstrey. King Porter is on WBCO. Gospel Cavalcade is also on WBCO; I guess they played gospel music in the morning. So anyway, so far it looks like the bigger names around this time are at WJLD with Duke Rumore and Willie McKinstrey and they were written up in the Birmingham News as these exceptional disc jockeys. They won the disc jockey award, some kind of award, from 1954." 1950s Radio Logs Roberta Roland WAPI WBCO WBRC WCRT WEDR WEZB WJLD https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/3f6cb6cf934b30b147eb38b0356451cb.jpg be8383b991f07ea2c7282853d0ccaf73 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/d2002a24a56adef64cf1201a3ed52f05.jpg b1e30f44a257d91771dac6a9c3a78426 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/855692f2c0f11415b6b7f4028fb640da.jpg e4a60ff5b69fb7514ff6d21999262e58 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource 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 correctly to 1220. The Walter Anglin show on. Junior Daniels on WEDR; that was probably Wiley Daniels Walter Anglin on again. Wiley Daniels on, so maybe that was his son. The Mary Francis show. This is where I contend is the timeslot that Shelley Stewart took over eventually, but he is not on the air as of October of 1954. Going over to WJLD 1400: the King Porter Show - King has switched to WJLD from WBCO this year, Willie McKinstry on, Truman Puckett on. It’s still a mix of black and country. Mel Allen doing football play by play. The Atomic Boogie Hour on, we’re not sure who was doing it at this time at WJLD. Game of the week, that’s Ohio State vs. California with Mel Allen. Mel Allen was the voice of the New York Yankees for many many years; I grew up with him. 1450 WBCO, this is again October 1st, still looks like a lot of swing, a lot of rock and roll, rhythm and blues, Erskine Fausch still on the air. And that’s what we see. No major change. I have three successive days here, but I don’t see... there’s still the same people on on EDR. The Ensley Jubilee singers are on EDR; William Pope is on EDR. This is already a Sunday; it’s pretty clear. WJ Allen. JLD Willing Workers, Listen to Labor with Willie McKinstry. That must have been an interesting show and Roberta Roland still on on JLD. BCO has various churches, the Harmonettes are singing and so forth. This looks like it was a Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Cause Reveille with Eddie Castleberry is not on. (vocalizes) I can only imagine he had a morning show and played Reveille." 1950s Birmingham News King Porter Radio Logs Walter Anglin WAPI WBCO WBRC WCRT WEDR WEZB WJLD https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/321c70e05bd5098057fa05374192f45d.jpg 9a074802e07e6a4a30e53c09e868f8b7 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/a0902e7e10a3c44819dc92d3308868f2.jpg d250c51f64ee8e75ae48b4a19a565247 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 Clippings, Radio Logs Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 14: "And we are now into folder 14, which again are a couple of radio logs from Sunday, January 16th and Friday/Saturday, January 21st/22ndnd of 1955 from the Birmingham News. Joyce Savage is mentioned at… where is Joyce Savage mentioned? On this one you have Mary Francis right here on WEDR at 2 o’clock or 2:30. No, 2:45 she had a show. Joyce Savage on WJLD was also somebody who apparently sent that notification of the station going black. This particular piece looks like a Sunday. It’s lots of gospel. WBCO. The only name we recognize at BCO is Duke the Juke and Gospel Cavalcade we assume is still Erskine Faush. Thurgood CME Methodist Church. I’m looking at WJLD. The Watts Jubilee Singers, the Carter Choral Ensemble, WJ Allen we recognize at WJLD. And St. Peter’s Baptist Church would be WA Clark. Roberta Roland is on, Willie McKinstry is on. Going to 1220, St. Peter’s Church, the Ensley Jubilee Singers, the Kelly Choral Singers, that’s Norman Wooding’s group: Walter Anglin, William Pope, they had a lot of personalities on on Sunday. Kings of Harmony. Now, that was January 16th; we go to the 22nd that would be a Saturday. Spun by Juke the Duke at WBCO. WEDR on a Saturday, the Shelley Stewart Show appears from 11 in the morning until, looks like, 12:30 when Fannie Johnson comes on. And he follows Big Jim’s Show of Music. It’s the first radio log that we find mention of Shelley Stewart, January 22nd of 1955. WJLD had the Ensley Jubilees still in the morning so they did do radio. The Gospel Five, we have a picture of the Gospel Five. Eddie Castleberry’s at JLD. Truman Puckett’s still there. RJ Pope’s still there. Rack ‘Em Back Zack, there’s his show on a Saturday night. Zack’s Record Rack and Tiger Thompson. WBCO had the Johnny Jive Show. Of course it was all about advertising. Spun by Juke the Duke. I think Duke is gone by now to WSGN. Devotional Talk by Erskine Fausch, Erskine is still there at WBCO. Lots of Erskine from 8 until 11, had very big numbers, a three hour block, and they had him on on a Saturday. That’s how popular he was. So there we have it and now we have something about Shelley Stewart, at least the way the Birmingham News was able to receive information on changes in programming. We have to kind of acknowledge that." 1950s Birmingham News Radio Logs WAPI WBCO WBRC WCRT WEDR WEZB WJLD https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/0d1dde802c1da418ff5e985d95a7a63b.jpg 3d0849b04871f1e00bcf871c1205d3ba https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/a6043a3e3728ba30569463ca9a500bf7.jpg 585ace3ee94724f5efea1f7920823be0 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/8c9154589072e120f2bfdf15f696a862.jpg 07d47f22699ed5db2cc92598ef64dd34 https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/aa7c6b702496c4855ca289209990a243.jpg 68f738fee8fc84cfec5d7ee928a80856 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 Clippings, Roy Wood Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 27: "Ok we’re on to folder 27, which is a statement from Brother Eugene Jackson, who is a president of the National Black Radio Network which is the beginning of stations from around the country that are black owned or who want to affiliate one way or another, creating the… what would become eventually the American Urban Radio Network. And these are a couple articles that were probably supplied by Roy Wood and Roy Wood was in one of the articles; he was inducted into the Phillips High School Hall of Fame along with Sam Cooke and Diana Washington. These are a lot of people who went to Phillips High School, some of whom we would know but I’m sure all of whom many of those people from that period knew. Certainly we would know Sam Cooke. I don’t know how Sam Cooke got involved in this. But there was a hall of fame so they just decided to induct whoever they felt like inducting. Nat King Cole I could understand cause he was from this area I believe, as was Diana Washington. It also describes the history of Roy Wood. Roy Wood. And we’ve mentioned Roy in the past. We have an two interviews with Roy in our oral history collection. Passed at the age of 80, a grand man, and describes his history including his time at WJLD. He was only there about a year and he was the first full time black personality DJ at WJLD. WJLD was on its way to changing format to full time R&B programming and the hiring of all black personalities. That’s what his history shows us. But his history goes all the way back to 1946, after he graduated from Columbia University and worked at WJBA, Mishawauka, Indiana. Mishawauka, Indiana. Ok, from Roy Wood. Fond Memories." Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity American Urban Radio Network Eugene Jackson National Black Network Phillips High School Roy Wood Sam Cooke