The BCMP collection consists of many dozens of reel to reel audiotapes of radio broadcasts aired over WMUA during the 1970s and early 1980s by and for the universitys African American community. Included is a range of locally-produced public affairs, cultural, and music programming, with some content licensed from around the country. A few of the tapes are associated with the Five Colleges National Public Radio affiliate, WFCR.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
Audiocassettes contain radio spots, including advertisements prepared by Doak, Carrier & Associates; radio appearances particularly on WINA's "Talk Back" and recordings of various appearances at local events. Other local political figures recorded in these tapes include Paul Harris, Jane Maddux, Ed Robb, Al Weed, and Phyllis A. Whitney. One tape contains a campaign appearance by an unidentified candidate after Emily's death.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Repository/Collector:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
NJ Council of Churches; WINS Radio Programs (1963-64); Radio WMCA (1966); UTS production: in cooperation with National Association of Radio (196?); WRVR broadcasts (1965)WOR Radio Programs (1963-65)
Radio programs, court dramatizations, advertisements, and other segments used in the Fiorani radio broadcasts in the Scranton, Pa. area (presumably including WPTS, which Fiorani owned).
Campaign spots, "H-Bomb Radio Spots," WNEW, Clifton Utley, Mrs. Edison Dick, Edward R. Murrow ("This I Believe"), "The National Purpose," Billy Graham, Jack Webster, Carl Sandburg, John Gardner, Clinton Rossiter, Albert Wohlstetter, Walter Lippmann
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections