sentences:  Fitzgerald went against this in a number of ways – he put up famous deejays Leeper and Eugene "Genial Genes" Potts high up in the team as Women's Affairs Director and Director of Public Affairs respectively, he assigned a number of other African Americans such positions, and even hired one of the country's first Black radio engineer – Uriah Gooding.The driving idea behind these moves was to give onlookers a sense of the power that African Americans were gaining in the industry.WGIV had become a symbol of the "coming era of racial harmony and progress".