Melba Tolliver
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Melba Tolliver
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Melba Tolliver is an American journalist and former New York City news anchor and reporter. She is best remembered for her defiant stance against ABC owned WABC-TV when she refused to don a wig or scarf to cover up her Afro in order to cover the White House wedding of President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon in 1971. Tolliver was born in Rome, Georgia. She worked as a registered nurse and later became a secretary at ABC in November 1966. Strikes by the American Federation of Television an
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American journalist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melba_Tolliver
date created:
2006-02-17T16:47:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T06:18:28Z
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