This is NBC Radio and it's Blue Network coverage of the 1944 Democratic National Convention. World War Two was at it's peak, and Democrats met in Chicago to renominate President Franklin Roosevelt for a 4th term in office, even though there were many rumors that FDR was in very poor health. (He died a few months after the election) Meanwhile, the party establishment pulled Vice President Henry Wallace off the ticket and replaced him with Senator Harry Truman, much to the outrage of the attendees.

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From 1940, this is a show called The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. It Was a popular a musical variety radio program, which was a satire of the high brow classical music programs on network radio at the time, and featured jazz and blues performers. Appearing on this episode are singer Dinah Shore, who would go on to have a 3 decade career on television. And Jelly Roll Morton, the legendary African-American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer, who claimed to be the inventor of jazz. Morton would die one year after appearing on this show. Her never fully recovered from being stabbed multiple times in 1938. Jelly Roll Morton was inducted into the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. 

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Family therapist and author Leslie Landis, Rachel Zhou of GirlUp, and two representatives of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. 

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The Great Gildersleeve was a radio situation comedy broadcast from 1941 to 1957. The series was built around the character Throckmorton Gildersleeve, small town water commissioner and his family. One of the co-stars was Lillian Randolph, an African-American actress and singer. But later in the series her actress sister Amanda Randolph took the role. Both were active during radio's golden age and were often mistaken for each other. First we'll hear Lillian, and then Amanda as Birdie the maid on the Great Gildersleeve. 

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Destination Freedom is a Chicago based series form radio's classic era which brought to life the experiences of Black Americans. This episode is entitled, Ghost Editor. It's the story of Oklahoma newspaper publisher Roscoe Dunjee. He founded the Black Dispatch in 1915, it was the first African-American newspaper in Oklahoma City. Dunjee used it as a platform to support civil rights and to reveal the injustices facing African-Americans. 

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It's about life in the inner city. We have a 1944 episode of the classic radio drama New World A Coming. It's entitled...Ghettos, the Black Belt, Their History. The narrator is the celebrated African-American actor Canada Lee.

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The Mills Brothers were the first African-American artists to have their own show on national network radio. They became a worldwide sensation for their ability to mimic musical instruments. Donald, Herbert, Harry, and John Jr, were born into a family of nine in Piqua, Ohio. They started singing in church, and were so talented they began appearing on Cincinnati radio stations. The jazz vocal quartet went on to make more than 2,000 recordings, which sold more than 50 million copies, with 3 dozen going gold. Their first number one hit was Paper doll in 1943. The Mills Brothers also appeared in films, and later on television. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998. you will hear their pioneering CBS Radio show from 1930, and their appearances on The Andrews Sisters Show in 1945, the Spike Jones Spotlight Revue in 1948, and Guest Time in the 1950s. 

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