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movement. He was often known to stop playing music to talk about the efforts of African-Americans and others who were campaigning for equality, and about the work of the movement's leaders such as Dr.
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In 1963, Woods and WDAS radio station General manager Bob Klein chartered buses to take people down to the August 28, 1963 March on
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According to news reports, he was due to return to Philadelphia in the fall of 2005 to be inducted into the
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community. He went on to play the talents of emerging artists like
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In the 1960s, Woods used the airwaves to talk about the American
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This United States biographical article related to radio is a
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speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) and had asked a young
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that was sung by White artists, rather than Black artists.
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in 1953 and began broadcasting from AM stations such as
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