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George Barbour was KDKA radio’s first Black news reporter.
 
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When protesters seeking voting rights for Black Americans made the 54-mile trek from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, a Pittsburgh reporter was there.
It didn’t matter to KDKA radio newsman George Barbour that his boss considered it too dangerous for a news outlet to send a Black reporter to the Deep South to cover a racially charged story. He was determined to go. And he talked KDKA into it. ....

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