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It was autumn of 1963, and local radio was about to change forever.
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It was autumn of 1963, and local radio was about to change forever.
In 1963, Ralph Kelley became the youngest man ever elected mayor of Chattanooga, and the women in the accompanying photo were partly responsible.
Sixty years ago this week, on the same day Nashville was swearing in the 40 members of its Metropolitan Council for the first time, the Metropolitan Government Charter Commission here was determining the size of its proposed council.
Chattanoogans saluting Black History Month likely know the accomplishments of James Mapp, whose 1960 lawsuit sped the integration of local schools, John Franklin, who was elected in 1971 as the city's first Black commissioner, and the Rev. Paul McDaniel, whose 1977 actions led to a change in Hamilton County government.
Ralph Clemson Kelley, Jr, 97, of Cassville, Missouri, passed away peacefully on March 8, 2022, at the home of his daughter from complications of COPD. Ralph was born on December 18, 1924, in...