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Pervis Spann

CTL-E-1199 · Person · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Born August 16, 1932 in Itta Bena, Mississippi; first DJ job at WOPA (Oak Park) in the 1950s; organized a B.B. King/Junior Parker concert (1960); hired by the Chess brothers as a WVON DJ in 1963; known as "The Blues Man"; staged an 87-hour sleepless "sit-in" raising money for MLK.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BMI-002; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BMI-002:pervis-spann; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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