Larry Alexander Wilson

By Sandra A.McLaughlin

Larry Alexander Wilson was born on February 19 in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland USA and by the 1968 he was 19 years old bold young man who brightly remembers events of Baltimore Riots of April 1968.

In 1967 Wilson graduated from Baltimore City College High School. Baltimore City College is the Country’s third oldest high school. It was first opened in 1839 as an all male school. Following the landmark ruling of Supreme Court in the case Brown v. Board of Education, the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners decided to desegregate the school system. As a result of that decision, ten African-American students entered City College in September of 1954; Larry Alexander Wilson had a chance for better education.

In 1967 Wilson began attending Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, the oldest black college/university in the country, as a Political Science major. Until 1972 it was all male school. After attending Lincoln University for 3 years, Larry Wilson never graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, but it didn’t stop him from having a successful career in radio broadcasting for another 20 years of his life.

Wilson started as a news reporter at WEBB in 1969, worked at WBAL (1970-1974), had one years experience at WILD in Boston, MA. in 1974 and continued at NBC, Washington, DC until 1977. From 1977 until 1982 Wilson worked at WCAO/WXYV where he started as news reported, later became the Public Service Director and ended up as the Program Director for the station. He spent 5 years at WWIN (1982-1987) and his last 3 years of his radio broadcasting career he dedicated to WBAL (1987 to 1990).

In 1995 Wilson drastically changed his career and became a cook at one of the finest Baltimore’s fine dinning Restaurant’s, Brass Elephant. He has been working there for the last 12 years.

On October 2nd of 2007 Larry Alexander Wilson agreed to participate in the University of Baltimore “Baltimore’ 68: Riots and Rebirth” project and gave an interview to a History major student Sandra A. McLaughlin. An interview was taped and recorded on University of Baltimore campus and is being archived in the Langsdale Library’s Special Collection and it is accessible to the public.

Referances:

Baltimore City College: Definition ang Much More from Answers.com. http://www.answers.com/topic/baltimore-city-college (accessed November 12, 2007).

Lincoln University. http://www.lincoln.edu/upwardbound/history.html (accessed November 12, 2007).

Wellcome to Baltimore City College. http://www.thebaltimorecitycollege.org (accessed November 12, 2007).

Wilson, Larry A., interview by Sandra A. Mclaughlin. Baltimore '68 Riots and Rebirth (October 2, 2007).

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