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GA HR1600
Resolution
Status
Passed
3/19/2018
Primary Sponsor
Valencia Stovall
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AI Summary
- Georgia House Resolution 1600 recognizes and commends Marsha Washington George, known as "Radiolady," a Metropolitan Atlanta author and radio historian who wrote Black Radio... Winner Takes All! about America's African American broadcast pioneers
- Her uncle, Ken Knight, was the program director who opened WERD on Auburn Avenue in 1949, the first Black-owned radio station in the United States; he was inducted as a Legacy Inductee Member of the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame in 2017
- George served as primary advisor for the Georgia Tech Xi Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta from 1980 to 1990, worked with the NBPC Scholarship Committee from 1989 to 2017, and was appointed board member of the National Black Radio Hall of Fame in St. Louis in 2017
- She received the MLK Drum Major for Service Award in 2017, was honored as a radio historian by the NBPC in 2011, and sponsored the Young Readers Children's Book Club from 2007 to 2011
- The Clerk of the House of Representatives is directed to provide a copy of the resolution to Marsha Washington George
Legislative Description
George, Marsha Washington; commend
Last Action
House Read and Adopted
3/19/2018
Full Bill Text
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