In 1947, just shy of her twenty-third birthday, Christine Cooper accepted a job as copywriter at WDIA, a new radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. When the Program Director was abruptly fired, she took over his job, but the station was going under when Bert Ferguson, the manager and co-owner, decided to hire a black program host, Nat Williams. Williams was a hit with black Memphis, and one year later, WDIA was the first station in the country to have “all-Negro” programming. As Program Director, Christine Cooper insisted the station not only entertain, but also serve, inform, and empower its listeners. WDIA became one of the most successful radio stations in the country and still broadcasts today. It was called the “Goodwill Station” for its good works, “the Starmaker Station” for its influence on American music, and the “Mother Station of the Negroes” for pioneering black radio. At ninety-four, Christine Cooper Spindel is finally telling her personal story — how, in segregated 1940s Memphis, a young white woman learned to see her society through a new lens and worked to change radio history.