FEBRUARY 2, 2009, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: NICK MANOS Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., was a pioneer African American radio station entrepreneur.  Blayton founded WERD-AM in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 1949, making him the first African American to own and operate a radio station in the United States. Jesse Blayton was born in Fallis, Oklahoma, on December 6, 1897. He graduated from the […]

JESSE B. BLAYTON, SR. (1897-1977)