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Montgomery-Tuskegee Times

Al Dixin / Alvin Dixon, a disc jockey who became a reverend, founded and edited the paper.

He was in WAPX and was an orfanizer pf Black disc jockeys?

As a DJ Dixon was known as Dizzy Dixon and Ugly Al as well as the Soul Mouth of the South. He booked acts along the Chitlin Circuit.

He wrote a column on soul music and the importance of Black broadcasters. Almaria Dixon??? family member

He also worked at WXBI. WCBI?

At an awards ceremony in 1998, Dixon honored Alvin Holmes for his tenure as a legislator.

http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2000/Media/Al%20Dixon%20page.htm

525 Augusta Avenue?

Airchexx posted audio from one of Dixon's radio broadcasts.

Violent Black Muslim revolutionaries took Dixon and another WAPX employee hostage after slashing one man and killing another in Montgomery and being chased by police. They broadcast calls for revolution. Dixon and the other worker escaped and the revolutionaries were captured.