The HistoryMakers video oral history with Carol Cutting.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 39 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: Video E-Resource Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337108
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Carol Cutting
Carol Cutting
Other authors / contributors:Cutting, Carol Moore, 1948- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Northampton, Massachusetts 2013 April 28.
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Summary:Radio station owner Carol Moore Cutting was born on April 24, 1948, in Lexington, Alabama. She earned her B.A. degree at Tuskegee University in 1969; and her M. A. degree in community leadership from Springfield Community College in 1971. In 1989, Cutting became the owner and general manager of Cutting Edge Broadcasting, Inc., making her the first African American woman in Massachusetts to be licensed to operate a radio station. After eight years of litigation and several technical delays, Cutting was granted the construction permit for WEIB- FM, 106.3 which was tested for broadcast with the FCC in 1999. Cutting was also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters and a member of the board of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters and the Western Massachusetts Food Bank. Cutting was inducted into the Springfield Technical Community College's Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.