Podcast #248 – African American Preachers on Wax

Podcast #248 – African American Preachers on Wax

Author: Radio Survivor June 3, 2020 Duration: 1:00:14

On this week’s episode, scholar Lerone Martin shares with us the fascinating history of African-American preachers who distributed their sermons on 78rpm records during a time when they had limited access to the radio in the 1920s-1940s. Martin, Associate Professor in Religion and Politics at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at […]

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