AFRICAN AMERICANS AND RADIO
An Overview
By Donna L. Halper
Journalism Department
Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts
©2002. Donna L. Halper, Boston, Massachusetts
FURTHER READING
Various
issues of old radio magazines from the 20s and 30s, such as “Radio Digest,”
“Radio Broadcast” and “Radio Stars” were used in this essay, as were
articles from “Variety” and “Broadcasting”. For information about the
past several decades, I searched the Lexis/Nexis database, and used newspaper
articles from the Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, and
Washington Post as well several articles from “Billboard”. A complete
bibliography is available upon request..
The
Jackson TN Sun series on the Civil Rights movement and the suppression of news
can be found on-line at http://www.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/index.shtml
Cantor,
Louis.
“Wheelin’ on Beale.”
New York:
Pharos, 1992.
Dates,
Jannette L. and William Barlow.
“Split Image:
African Americans in the Mass Media.”
Washington DC:
Howard University Press, 1990
Ehrlich,
Paul.
“Paul Robeson, Singer and Actor.”
New York:
Chelsea House, 1988
Hasse,
John Edward. “Beyond Category-- The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington.”
New York:
Da Capo, 1993
MacDonald,
J. Fred. “Don’t Touch That Dial.” Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, 1979.
Oakley,
Giles.
“The Devil’s Music:
A History of the Blues.”
New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976
Savage,
Barbara Dianne.
“Broadcasting Freedom.”
Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina, 1999.
Smith,
Wes.
“The Pied Pipers of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
Marietta GA:
Longstreet, 1989.
Williams, Gilbert A. “Legendary Pioneers of Black Radio.” Westport CT: Praeger, 1998.
My
thanks to Dr. Marvin Bensman of the University of Memphis, for the information
on Victor Laughter and W.C Handy.
Dr Bensman has a radio archive at http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mbensman/
My thanks to the Chicago Historical Society, which holds an excellent collection of memorabilia about the life of Jack L. Cooper
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