Zenas Sears

Zenas “Daddy” Sears
American radio personality and social activist
Owner of WAOK, an Atlanta AM radio station. WAOK was one of the first in the nation to feature as its primary format such as African American musical forms as blues, R&B, and soul. Sears started the radio station in 1956 and instituted an all-R&B format, the first of its kind. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he became involved with the civil rights movement under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

Born July 14, 1913 in Akron, Ohio
Died October 4, 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia