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Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux (center) holding a child at Happy News Café in Washington.

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Lightfoot Solomon Michaux: The Black preacher and broadcaster who feuded with MLK

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at his life and his contentious relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.

Black preacher and broadcaster Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux had an audience in the millions but fell out of favor in the civil rights era

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