My father reported live from Martin Luther King's funeral — http://www.ablacklookback.com/audio-recordings.html … in his long career as a journalist covering civil rights
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I won't say much about it all today except that when my dad started, you could not get a job as a black reporter.
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Working in radio made it possible for him to get a break, and moreso when the civil rights movement blocked anyone white from attending.
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(As a result of these, he often had scoops that nobody else had access to)
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