Contains papers, sound recordings, photographs and memorabilia relating to Richbourg's career as a disk jockey for WLAC, Nashville, TN, 1942-1973. Includes tapes of air-checks, primarily from the 1960s. Papers include clippings, articles and a brief hand written memoir documenting his career as a broadcaster, record producer and as an educator who founded a school of broadcasting for black students in the 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
The Blues Archive, The University of Mississippi Libraries, The University of Mississippi
Includes script for a 1941 WJDX Memorial Day radio broadcast, "A Page from the Past," that was presented by the W. D. Holder Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Consists of correspondence, printed materials, social papers, a scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings and other papers relating to his career which included his role as chairman of the Federal Radio Commission and the first chairman of the FCC.
Consists of bound volumes of scripts, both rough drafts and typescripts of actual broadcasts, for Magnolia Sketches broadcast over WJDX, Jackson prepared under the WPA Federal Writers' Project. The topics covered include historical sketches of towns in Mississippi, famous personalities in the state, anecdotes, stories of industry and business from early days to the time of the broadcasts and other historical material. The material was prepared and delivered by Dickson.
Includes scripts for Orchids to You written by Harkins, a Jackson florist. Each script contains biographical information on a citizen of Jackson or the surrounding territory.
Contains papers relating to the company's early involvement in radio and television broadcasting in Mississippi, including the establishment of Mississippi's first network radio station, WJDX, in 1929.
Includes a list of the first licensed stations in Mississippi, a list of the existing AM and FM stations in Mississippi showing location, date first licensed and changes in call letters, 1924-1936, program logs of WPFB, March 17 and September 2, 1932, and WROB, October 18, 1947, and studio log and meter readings for station WRBJ, 1931.
Contains a variety of materials, including compositions, correspondence, military records, newsclippings, oral history transcripts, photographs, political campaign ephemera and memorabilia, printed material, public relations material, scrapbooks, slides, sound recordings, speeches, subject files and miscellany. May contain information relating to Pittman's role as president of Tylertown Broadcasting Company and general manager of WTYL AM-FM.
Miscellaneous papers, consisting primarily of programs and articles written by and concerning Still, an African American composer. Includes a copy of Still's own manuscript of the song "Mississippi" composed for the Sound Off program and first presented on that program over the ABC network, July 26, 1948.