Wednesday, January 10, 2018

WROX



AM 1450 WROX is a Classic R&B station in Clarksdale, Mississippi.  They went on the air in June, 1944.  Three years later in 1947, Early "Soul Man" Wright became the first black radio announcer in Mississippi and continued to broadcast on WROX for the next 52 years.  Ike Turner was a janitor at the station while attending Clarksdale High School.  WROX is one of the few stations that has its own museum which is located at 257 Delta Avenue in Clarksdale and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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