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Al Dixin / Alvin Dixon, a disc jockey who became a reverend, founded and edited the paper.
[1] He was in WAPX and was an orfanizer pf Black disc jockeys?
As a DJ Dixon was known as Dizzy Dixon and Ugly Al as well as the Soul Mouth of the South. He booked acts along the Chitlin Circuit.[2]
He wrote a column on soul music and the importance of Black broadcasters.[3] Almaria Dixon??? family member
He also worked at WXBI.[4] WCBI?
At an awards ceremony in 1998, Dixon honored Alvin Holmes for his tenure as a legislator.[5]
http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2000/Media/Al%20Dixon%20page.htm
525 Augusta Avenue?
Airchexx posted audio from one of Dixon's radio broadcasts.[6]
Violent Black Muslim revolutionaries took Dixon and another WAPX employee hostage after slashing one man and killing another in Montgomery and being chased by police. They broadcast calls for revolution. Dixon and the other worker escaped and the revolutionaries were captured.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Get on Down with the Stepfather of Soul!: Soul on the Air #14 - "Ugly" al Dixon, 1975". 14 December 2009.
- ^ "Rhythm and Dues on 'The Chitlin Circuit'". 12 February 2010.
- ^ "Billboard". 22 August 1970.
- ^ "Al Dixon, disc jockey for radio station WXBI in Montgomery, Alabama".
- ^ "Baha'i Ralph Featherstone a former Black History Award winner". The Montgomery Advertiser. 23 February 1998. p. 18.
- ^ "Al Dixon, 1600 WAPX Montgomery | February 24, 1975". 18 December 2014.
- ^ "40 years ago, group of karate-kicking Black Muslims take over radio station, cause shootout that changes Montgomery history". 10 October 2014.