Papers document Hayes's career as a radio broadcaster, 1961-1988, although he began his radio career in the Air Force in 1950 as an announcer for the Armed Forces Radio Service and in 1956 he began work as the black on-air personality and first black news announcer for a station in Alexandria, LA. Includes photocopies of scrapbooks containing publicity literature and photographs reflecting Hayes's radio work from the early to mid-1960s in Chicago, including his work on WMMP, the first black owned station in the Midwest, WSBC, WVON and WGES.
Dates:
1961-1989
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis