Mary Dee: podcast appearances and interviews

Mary Dudley, known as Mary Dee, was an American disc jockey born Mary Elizabeth Goode on April 8, 1912. She is widely recognized as the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States. Dee grew up in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and attended Howard University for two years before having her family. She later studied at the Si Mann School of Radio in Pittsburgh. On August 1, 1948, she began broadcasting at WHOD radio. Her show gained national attention, notably broadcasting from a storefront studio called Studio Dee in Pittsburgh's Hill District from 1951 to 1956. She subsequently moved her program, Movin' Around with Mary Dee, to Baltimore, where she aired from station WSID between 1956 and 1958, and later to Philadelphia in 1958. In Philadelphia, she hosted Songs of Faith on WHAT station until her death in 1964. Dee is considered a pioneer in radio, helping to develop a format that combined coverage of community affairs with music and news. She was among the first two Black women admitted to the Association of American Women in Radio and Television, and she successfully advocated for the organization to hold meetings in non-segregated facilities. Throughout her life, she received numerous awards recognizing her civic contributions. In 2011, Dee was posthumously honored with the Thomas J. MacWilliams Lifetime Achievement Award from the Media Association of Pittsburgh.