Longtime Wilmington-talk show host John Watson has died.

The announcement was made by a member of his family.

Watson, a broadcast engineer by training, brought a smooth professional style to his talk show, which came during a quarter of a century career at WILM.

The show helped cement the AM station’s unique status as a news-talk station with an audience that included residents of Wilmington, as well as business, education and community leaders in northern Delaware.  

For More go to:  https://delawarebusinessnow.com/2019/06/long-time-radio-talk-show-host-john-watson-dies/

Documentary from PBS on Barbara Johns of Farmville, Virginia and her role in the Supreme Court case "Brown v. Board of Education" Including Interview with John Watson and his participation in the events at the time.

John Watson has firsthand knowledge about the fight for desegregation. He has some thoughts on the ACLU complaint over charter schools in Delaware.

​In the 1950’s we fought a hard fight for public school desegregation. The KKK was busy trying to frighten us into giving up with nighttime gun and rifle attacks in some states. There were church bombings killing children, and cross burnings in many places. But it didn’t work.

I witnessed some of that fight while at my high school, R.R. Moton, in Farmville, Va. We have a picture of a cross burned at our school. We were a part of the desegregation battle along with four other groups, including a group from Delaware. We know it today as the successful the Brown vs. Board Supreme Court ruling on May 17th, 1954. Chief Justice Earl Warren led the court in its unanimous vote desegregating public education....

For more go to:  https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-charter-fight-brings-memories-of-another-education-era/

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