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This was how the famed 25 year collection of records which I own began.

But all of this was not without its heartaches--One day, a veteran of World War II who owned a radio station in Central, Georgia wrote me seeking assistance because he had read of my fight with the networks in George, and he needed help. The veteran who had served in the infantry in Europe and was saved during one of the campaign after being shot up by the Germans by a Negro medic vowed that if he ever got back to Central, Georgia, he would never be against Blacks. The young white veteran went back home and began operating his family radio station and the first thing he did was to broadcast a Negro hour of culture on his station. The program, he said, did not go well with some of his fellow Georgians, but since it was his station, the white folks gave lukewarm reception. One of the programs he broadcasted came from NBC in New York and was a collection of Paul Lawrence Dunbar poems.

Well some 'red necks' in the town wrote NBC up here and put so much pressure on them that NBC decided not to send the station owner any more of the Paul Lawrence Dunbar programs.

The veteran asked for help so one day, James Hicks and I went down to see the people who were packaging programs to find out why they had stopped sending our friend his program. The white lady in charge of packaging resented our questioning her motives and called James and I two "uppity Niggers" then all hell broke out.

We began a real attack on NBC and our fight got so hot that I was called by Sid Eigis, then head of P.R. for NBC to come and bring James with me for a talk.

It was Sid's job to pacify us and try to get us off NBC's back. Sid asked us what he could do to straighten his company out with the Negro Press. He said that NBC had gone and hired Joe Baker a Black Public Relations man out of Philadelphia and it was Baker's Job to advise them on race problems. We did not know Joe Baker but since he was a Negro and the white folks had hired him as a consultant and since we were campaigning for jobs for Blacks at the time, we accepted Joe.

This turned out to be a mistake because we had no sooner consented to work with Joe when Joe told Sid not to worry about us that we should not attack NBC anymore because he, Joe had the ear of all the Negro newspaper publishers--and he did.

Joe's public relations consisted of giving a big Christmas party for the Publishers every year and at the party he would give out a bag

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