Melba Tolliver
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Melba Tolliver (b. 1939 in Rome, Georgia) is an African American journalist and former New York news anchor and reporter who is best remembered for her defiant stance against ABC owned WABC-TV when she refused to don a wig or scarf to cover up her Afro in order to cover the White House wedding of President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon in 1971.
Tolliver worked at WABC as a reporter and anchor from 1967 to 1976. She then went to WNBC where she remained until 1980. She also worked for a time at News 12 Long Island.
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