WBBF (Radio station: Rochester, N.Y.) Civil rights and race relations events

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2734

Scope and content

Tapes of meetings, interviews, and other events relating to civil rights and race relations in Rochester, New York, recorded by radio station WBBF in Rochester.

Scope and content

Included are interviews with the Rochester Council of Churches and community leaders dealing with the employment of Saul Alinsky and public hearings on the Police Advisory Board.

Scope and content

Also, commentary by Tanya Yudelson about FIGHT.

Dates

1960-1966.

Creator

WBBF (Radio station: Rochester, N.Y.) (Organization)
Yudelson, Tanya. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection closed for digitization project.

Biographical / Historical

FIGHT (Freedom, Independence, God, Honor, Today) was a community organization founded in 1965 after the 1964 riots in Rochester, N.Y. It successfully agitated for change in hiring practices, living conditions, and other issues. FIGHT leaders also successfully prevented additional civil unrest in Rochester when rioting occurred in other northern cities in the 1960s. The Rev. Franklin D. Florence, a friend of Malcolm X, served as the face and voice of the organization and its first president, working closely with the controversial social activist, Saul Alinsky.