Civil Rights

Barbecue master Gabby Mason served mouthwatering soul food from several locations in Yellow Springs for years. Like many small businesses, Gabby's BBQ relied on family members (particularly Gabby's wife Mary Mason).

The settlement resolves the lawsuit the man filed against Dayton Police alleging his civil rights were violated in November 2022 when two officers handcuffed him and took him to the hospital against his will.

Loud as the Rolling Sea is our series that features the stories of today’s elders–both Black and white, who were young civil rights workers in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Hear elders from Yellow Springs telling stories about their lives and their efforts on behalf of civil rights.

Those who gathered October 11 to celebrate a 40-foot mural of Springfield Civil Rights activist Hattie Moseley were like the mural itself: fresh, vibrant, of many colors and bathed in sunlight. WYSO Clark County Reporter Tom Stafford was there.

The Dayton City Commissioners sent a letter to Governor Mike DeWine (R-OH) calling for stronger gun regulations Wednesday evening.

The International Peace Museum will open its doors on Thursday in a new location in downtown Dayton. That’s after being closed for over two years due to the pandemic.

A large crowd of Daytonians gathered to commemorate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. Community members and leaders marched from the Charles Drew health center to Sinclair Community College.

To honor the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, we invited WYSO listeners to read his speech as we recorded their voices.

In this encore edition of Rediscovered Radio, we have a story about a white Kentucky woman named Ann McCarty Braden who fought racism in this country for more than sixty years.In the early 1980s, Braden visited Ohio, and Rediscovered Radio producer Jocelyn Robinson found an interview with her in the WYSO Audio Archives.

Now in his 90s, Paul Graham is a soft spoken, retired chemist living in Yellow Springs, where he went to college, launched a career and a family, and eventually became a prominent civil rights activist. His parents had come north, like so many blacks in the early 20th century, and moved to Dayton, where they joined other family members and settled down.

In this installment, we’ll hear about student activism in the 1960s and 70s in Greene County, home to two historically Black colleges – Central State and Wilberforce University AND Antioch College. Students at all three schools organized protests, marches, sit-ins, rallies, pickets and more during those years, pressing hard and relentlessly for civil rights for African Americans.