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WERD (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Paul E.X. Brown WERD records

 Collection
Identifier: aarl97-010
Overview The collection contains records from 1949 to 1955 of WERD, Atlanta's first African American-owned and operated radio station, that were collected by Paul E. X. Brown and include program schedules, correspondence, some ephemeral items, sworn affidavits of owners operators, and employees of WERD, many from Jessie B. Blayton, as well as several audio cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes of political commentary and programming from 1953 to 1961. The affidavits concern the station's 1954 bid to the...
Dates: 1949-1955

WERD oral history interviews

 Collection
Identifier: aarl90-008
Overview The collection consists of twenty segments compiled and produced by Harold Lamar and broadcast from October 3-7, 1989 on radio station WVEE-WAOK (Atlanta, Ga.). The segments document the history of radio station WERD from 1949 until its demise in 1970. Topics discussed include the purchase of WERD by Jesse B. Blayton, moving the station from downtown Atlanta to Auburn Avenue, Jesse B. Blayton and the Blayton family, the relationship between black and white announcers or staff at the station,...
Dates: 1989

William M. Boyd collection

 Collection
Identifier: aarl97-013
Overview

The collection consists of photgraphs taken between 1953 and 1955 of Boyd with important figures in the civil rights movement and the NAACP including Walter White, Horace T. Ward, Thurgood Marshall, Charles L. Harper, Rev. James M. Hinton, and Carl Johnson and in his role as a political commentator at WERD. The collection also contains a reproduction of an article entitled, "People You Should Know" that profiles Boyd.

Dates: 1953-1955

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Affidavits 1
African American educators--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century. 1
African American radio stations--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century. 1
African American radio stations--Georgia. 1
African Americans--Death--History--19th century. 1