Search for Missing Persons launches (1938)

CTL-E-4824 · Event · founding · 1938

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Jack L. Cooper created Search for Missing Persons in 1938 on WSBC Chicago, a program to reunite Black listeners with family separated by migration, incarceration, or economic hardship.

Notes

RELP111 supporting event; events.json CTL-EVT-023914.

Referenced by

Jack L. Cooper — initiated → this record

Sources

Radio Hall of Fame - Jack L. Cooper
USA Radio Museum - Making of a Pioneer: Jack Leroy Cooper

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