For 10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching this market through radio.

In all big cities outside the South, and even in small towns within the South, radio stations can be found beaming some or all of their programs at Negro listeners.

Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; ;

he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro radio programs famous ''.

`` Negro-appeal radio is more important to the Negro today, because it provides a direct and powerful mirror in which the Negro can hear and see his ambitions, achievements and desires.

* 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.

When a violent race riot broke out in Detroit on June 20, 1943, Willkie went on national radio to criticize Republicans and Democrats for ignoring " the Negro question.

* January 20-The U. S .- based National Negro Network is established with forty-six member radio stations.

Both tune and elements of the lyrics were adapted in the controversial parody " Barack the Magic Negro ", written and recorded by Paul Shanklin for Rush Limbaugh's radio program, after the term was first applied to then presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic, David Ehrenstein, in a Los Angeles Times op ed column of March 19, 2007.

Lomax presented sections of this recording on BBC radio in the early 1950s as a documentary titled The Art of the Negro, and later released an expanded version as the LP Blues in the Mississippi Night.

In 1929 she appeared on the radio show " Negro Achievement Hour " on WABC, New York.

still sing, especially the long-term prisoners who have been confined for years and who have not yet been influenced by jazz and the radio, the distinctive old-time Negro melodies.

This inspired parodist Paul Shanklin to write the song " Barack the Magic Negro ", which was eventually broadcast by Rush Limbaugh's radio show.

In August 2007, in a controversial move, the City of Memphis ensured the college would open for the fall 2007 semester by pledging $ 3 million in taxpayer funds to be added to other substantial pledges that came from the United Negro College Fund, Cummins Inc., radio host Tom Joyner and the United Church of Christ.

The National Negro Network was a black-oriented radio programming service in the United States founded on January 20, 1954 by Chicago advertiser W. Leonard Evans, Jr.

The first news director was Roy N. Wood Sr., from the famed Chicago radio station WVON, " The voice of the Negro.

* Negro Newsfront ( 1940s ), radio show

Recording a John Peel Session for BBC radio in the UK, and gaining regional popularity, the band signed with Blanco y Negro who released the singles " Heart Happy " and " Call Me Blue " in Ireland and the UK.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

Writers openly admit that the Negro is easier to write than the white man ; ;

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

`` Do you suppose his self-consciousness is characteristic of the new Negro professionals or merely of doctors in general ''??

That reference in the Report is `` continuation of the trend toward an all-Negro school system '', a remark apparently occasioned by the increase of Negro school population from 74.1 per cent to 76.7 per cent.

This is a problem to which leaders of opinion, both Negro and white, should devote far more attention.

I know another Negro, a man very dear to me, who says, with conviction and with truth, `` The spirit of the South is the spirit of America ''.

Neither the Southerner nor the Northerner is able to look on the Negro simply as a man.

What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.

Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse ( Negro ) College, where he is a B student and star halfback.

Not so well known is the growth of broadcasting operations aimed wholly or partly at Negro listeners -- an audience which, in the United States, comprises some 19,000,000 people with $20,000,000,000 to spend each year.

It is estimated that more than 600 stations ( of a total of 3,400 ) do a significant amount of programing for the Negro.

And WWRL's colorful mobile unit, cruising predominately Negro neighborhoods, is a frequent reminder of that station's round-the-clock dedication to nonwhite interests.

One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status.

" At this speech he also said: " Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery ...."

Since the necessary Negro labor, farming implements, and mules were provided by the army, lessees were responsible only for feeding and clothing the Negroes until the harvest, when they paid off their obligations to the army and to the laborers, Yearly expenses ran between $ 5, 000 and $ 30, 000 on a plantation of a thousand acres, while profits might run higher than $ 200, 000.

He said " if it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched ; it will be done to maintain white supremacy.

In an 1854 address, entitled " The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered ," Douglass argued that " by making the enslaved a character fit only for slavery, excuse themselves for refusing to make the slave a freeman .... For let it be once granted that the human race are of multitudinous origin, naturally different in their moral, physical, and intellectual capacities ... a chance is left for slavery, as a necessary institution ....

It was then Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, approved the allocation of 53, 299 African-Americans to the Army Air Forces with the “ stipulation that air base defense ‘ for the number of air bases found necessary ’ be organized and that " Negro personnel " be used for this purpose as required .” This order formed the Army Air Forces ( AAF ) air base security battalions in June 1942 and was influenced by racial as well as military considerations.