On this day in 1956: Bob Raiford, a disc jockey on Charlotte’s WBT, is fired for denouncing on the air the racial beating of Nat King Cole during a concert two days earlier in Birmingham, Ala.
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On this day in 1956: Bob Raiford, a disc jockey on Charlotte’s WBT, is fired for denouncing on the air the racial beating of Nat King Cole during a concert two days earlier in Birmingham, Ala.