Newsman George Barbour, the first Black reporter at NewsRadio KDKA, has died at the age of 96.
Among Barbour's most important journalism was coverage of the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I remember him from Selma and Montgumery in 1966 and one other city,” said Barbour during a report. “Selma was to be the first great test of his non-violent strategy to gain civil rights. The first, the test began on a bloody Sunday in March.”
Barbour said in one of his reports: "In the 1965 civil rights war, Negroes, newsmen and Northerners are hated, and I am all three."
He graduated from Oakdale High School in 1944 earned a diploma at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Journalism and worked in Baltimore and Richmond before coming back to work at the Pittsburgh Courier in 1953 and then NewsRadio KDKA.
Colleague Chris Moore says Barbour was fair, balanced and inquisitive.