Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Dee
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- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:12, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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Mary Dee
Mary Dee in 1951
- ... that Mary Dee (pictured), a popular radio personality in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, is widely regarded as the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States? Source: "1948 -- WHOD-AM, a 250-watt station, debuts, featuring a spectrum of ethnic programming and launches career of Mary Dee Dudley, the nation's first female African-American DJ, and Porky Chedwick, who introduced Pittsburgh to records by black artists." (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette); Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia stints mentioned in The Pittsburgh Courier
- ALT1: ... that Mary Dee's (pictured) first radio show was expanded from 15 minutes to an hour by its sixth month, two hours by its second year, and four hours by its fourth year? Source: "...enabled Mary to go on the air August 1, 1948 with her own 15-minute show. ... the show became so popular that in six months the broadcast was extended to an hour. Two years later Mary was conducting a two-hour daily session. Four years later, Mary found herself with four hours of radio time on the air. (The Pittsburgh Courier)
Improved to Good Article status by SusunW (talk). Nominated by Yoninah (talk) at 20:38, 18 October 2020 (UTC).
Good article status. No copyvio issues. Interesting hooks and article, well written and hooks followed by inline citations to sources containing hook information. QPQ provided. I prefer proposed hook and hope it goes on dyk with the image. Image is in public domain. SusunW and Yoninah thank you. Whispyhistory (talk) 16:46, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
