Billed as the "Uncrowned Queen of the Blues," Ida Cox (born Ida Prather) never achieved the fame of her contemporaries Bessie Smith and Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. Though she spent most of the 1920s and 1930s touring the United...

Cox was born October, 1890, although historically listed as February, 1896), as Ida Prather in Toccoa, Habersham County, Georgia (Toccoa was in Habersham County, not yet Stephens County at the time), the daughter of Lamax and Susie (Knight) Prather, and...

in a jook joint on no map but the map of memory the private possession of a few and one of them ... sometimes asks where was that? somewhere back in the woods ...--davenport (1991, 26) In Los Angeles, in 1982, I...

11 owned stations/1 managed As Sterling Davis, Cox Broadcasting vice president of engineering, gears up for NAB, he's most interested in checking out new digital equipment that can easily fit into existing plants as they are upgraded. Case in point, new automation...