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Diane White Clatto 1938-2015
Diane White Clatto, in 1967, giving the weather report on KSD-TV.
Photograph: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Diane White Clatto, Weathercaster Who Broke a Color Barrier, Dies at 76 NYT MAY 7, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/
Diane White Clatto 1938-2015
(born Dianne Elizabeth Johnson)
Dianne Elizabeth Johnson (was) the daughter of Milton and Nettie Johnson and a descendant of a Civil War general’s slave mistress.
She was among the first black students to enroll at the University of Missouri at Columbia and graduated in 1956 with a degree in psychiatric social work.
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Twelve years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse, Diane White Clatto made broadcasting history in St. Louis.
In 1962, according to industry colleagues, she became the first full-time black television weathercaster in the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/
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