Nod to The Legend · On the air · 1929
Jack L. Cooper
Pioneering Black radio DJ, Chicago
Cooper launched The All-Negro Hour on Chicago station WSBC in 1929, and became one of the first Black announcers in American radio and among the first to play records on air.
Still heard: Black radio, which broke gospel, blues, R&B and hip-hop, traces back to him.
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