{"id":1563,"date":"2016-05-15T23:12:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2016-05-15T23:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:12:45","slug":"who-was-betty-granger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Who was Betty Granger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my second trip to the Schomburg, I looked through the radio collection in the digital archives. I found many stunning photographs of the late radio host Betty Granger Reid. Here is a couple:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0011.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1564\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0011-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160511_0011\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0011-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0011-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0011-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0011.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Betty Granger with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0006.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1565\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0006-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160511_0006\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0006-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0006-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0006-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160511_0006.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Betty Granger with Eartha Kitt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reaction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve gathered from the archives is that Ms. Granger was a radio personality and host for WLIB during the 1950s. I&#8217;ve scavenged the internet for information, but I was unable to find much more beyond what the archive details. Unfortunately, I think this speaks to how little information has been preserved regarding pioneering women radio deejays of color.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Access:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I received access to the photographs from The Schomburg Digital Archives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metadata: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photographs list the photographer, Cecil Layne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my second trip to the Schomburg, I looked through the radio collection in the digital archives. I found many stunning photographs of the late radio host Betty Granger Reid. Here is a couple: Betty Granger with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Betty Granger with Eartha Kitt Reaction: What I&#8217;ve gathered from the archives is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[419,422,421,420,237],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-finds","tag-betty-granger","tag-cecil-layne","tag-eartha-kitt","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-the-schomburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}