Rediscovered Radio

In the summer of 1973, César Chávez came to Dayton from the strike lines in Coachella, California to talk about the plight of farm workers. There was a week of activities and WYSO News was right in the middle of it. Rediscovered Radio’s Jocelyn Robinson examined the struggles facing the migrant worker community, then and now.

After the Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles in 1965, something unique happened. An Academy Award-winning screenwriter visited Watts and realized the neighborhood had stories the nation needed to hear.

Rediscovered Radio Encore reintroduces Florynce Kennedy, an outspoken attorney and activist who bridged the Women’s Liberation and Black Power Movements in the 1960s and 70s, said “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” She was outrageous and defiant and with her middle finger in the air and a cowboy hat on her head, she came to Antioch in 1971 to talk about fighting oppression. WYSO was there.

WYSO's Jocelyn Robinson reflects on three Black women writers. The words of Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Alice Walker still hold weight today. In this encore edition of Rediscovered Radio, we listen to audio from these intelligent women found in the WYSO Archives.

In 1962 an Ohio State student, a singer and guitarist named Phil Ochs, moved to New York City and was soon at the center of the booming folk music scene…

In this iteration of Rediscovered Radio Encore, we’re taking you back to the 1960s and meeting a legendary Yellow Springs disc jockey. Music’s been a mainstay at on WYSO since we began broadcasting more than 60 years ago.

Music’s been a mainstay on WYSO since we began broadcasting more than 60 years ago. In this encore edition of Rediscovered Radio, project producer Jocelyn Robinson takes us back to the 1960s to meet a legendary Yellow Springs disc jockey.

In 1974, one of the leaders of the American Indian Movement visited Yellow Springs to raise awareness for their cause. The man’s name is Clyde Bellecourt, and a recording of his speech is housed in the archives here at WYSO. Rediscovered Radio project Director Jocelyn Robinson found the audio, and produced this piece.

Rediscovered Radio Encore takes a look back to the fall of 1980 when WYSO News aired a story on the National Afro-American Museum project.

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.

A few years ago, Producer Jocelyn Robinson rediscovered some incredible gems in our library that had gone lost. Including a rare recording of writer and social critic Susan Sontag, who visited Antioch College in the Spring of 1965 for a lecture series on “The Shape of Things to Come in America.”

Between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s, about three and a half million people migrated from Appalachia to the urban manufacturing centers of the Midwest. Over 40,000 came to the Dayton area from West Virginia, Tennessee, and especially Eastern Kentucky, seeking work at companies like National Cash Register, Frigidaire, and General Motors. They brought their culture and their music along with them. Archives Fellow Jocelyn Robinson brings us the rich mountain heritage in the WYSO audio collection, preserved through the efforts of three local brothers.