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Destination Freedom (1948-1950)
Destination Freedom
Premier Air Date: June 27, 1948
Station: WMAQ Chicago
Cast: Fred Pinkard, Oscar Brown Jr., Wezlyn Tilden and Janice Kingslow
Director and Writer: Richard Durham
Radio / Historical / Drama / Civil Rights
The triumph of African American civil rights can be attributed to many heroes and heroines of the past. History has nearly forgotten Richard Durham. Durham's creation created a foothold for the growing Civil Rights movement and paved the way for equality.
Richard Durham's Destination Freedom was a provocative half-hour Sunday feature that probed with remarkable candor the accomplishments of prominent African Americans. Through dramatic sketches culled from black history, this series maturely illustrated the methods by which black achievers, such as Benjamin Banneker, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, and Joe Louis, managed to succeed despite confrontations with systemic racism.
Radio Log:
| DATE |
TITLE |
| June 27, 1948 |
The Knock-Kneed Man (Crispus Attucks) |
| July 4, 1948 |
Railway to Freedom (Harriet Tubman) |
| July 11, 1948 |
Dark Explorers (Blacks accompanying Pizzarro and Balboa) |
| July 18, 1948 |
The Denmark Vesey Story |
| July 25, 1948 |
The Making of a Man (Frederick Douglass--Part I) |
| August 1, 1948 |
The Key to Freedom (Frederick Douglass--Part II) |
| August 8, 1948 |
The Heart of George Cotton
(Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams) |
| August 15, 1948 |
Truth Goes to Washington (Sojourner Truth) |
| August 22, 1948 |
Arctic Biography (Matthew Henson) |
| August 29, 1948 |
The Story of 1875 (Senator Charles Caldwell) |
| September 5, 1948 |
Poet of Pine Mill (James Weldon Johnson) |
| September 12, 1948 |
The Father of the Blues (W.C. Handy) |
| September 19, 1948 |
Boy with a Dream (Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins) |
| September 26, 1948 |
Shakespeare of Harlem (Langston Hughes) |
| October 3, 1948 |
Citizen Toussaint (Toussaint L'Ouverture) |
| October 10, 1948 |
Little David (Joe Louis) |
| October 17, 1948 |
The Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse
(George Washington Carver) |
| November 7, 1948 |
Echoes of Harlem (Duke Ellington) |
| November 14, 1948 |
One Out of Seventeen (Mary McLeod Bethune) |
| November 21, 1948 |
The Rime of the Ancient Dodger (Jackie Robinson) |
| November 28, 1948 |
Investigator for Democracy (Walter White) |
| December 5, 1948 |
Autobiography of a Hero (Dorie Miller) |
| December 12, 1948 |
The Pied Piper Versus Paul Revere (Albert Merritt) |
| December 19, 1948 |
Choir Girl from Philadelphia (Marian Anderson) |
| December 26, 1948 |
Mike Rex (Willard Motley) |
| January 2, 1949 |
Maiden Speech (Congressman Oscar DePriest) |
| January 9, 1949 |
The Boy Who Beat the Bus (Governor William H. Hastie) |
| January 16, 1949 |
The Chopin Murder Case (Hazel Scott) |
| January 23, 1949 |
The World's Fastest Human (Jesse Owens) |
| January 30, 1949 |
Last Letter Home (332nd Fighter Group) |
| February 6, 1949 |
Searcher for History (W.E.B. DuBois) |
| February 13, 1949 |
The Death of Aesop |
| February 20, 1949 |
Peace Mediator (Dr. Ralph Bunche) |
| February 27, 1949 |
The Houses That Paul Built (Paul Williams) |
| March 6, 1949 |
Do Something! Be Somebody! (Canada Lee) |
| March 13, 1949 |
Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) |
| March 20, 1949 |
Black Boy (Richard Wright) |
| March 27, 1949 |
Transfusion (Dr. Charles R. Drew) |
| April 3, 1949 |
Pagan Poet (Countee Cullen) |
| April 10, 1949 |
Woman with a Mission (Ida B. Wells) |
| April 17, 1949 |
Before I Sleep (Paul Lawrence Dunbar) |
| April 24, 1949 |
Apostle of Freedom (Richard Allen) |
| May 1, 1949 |
Help the Blind (Josh White) |
| May 15, 1949 |
The Ballad of Satchel Paige |
| May 22, 1949 |
The Secretary of Peace (Benjamin Banneker) |
| May 29, 1949 |
The Saga of Melody Jackson (Henry Armstrong) |
| June 5, 1949 |
Anatomy of an Ordinance (Alderman Archibald Carey) |
| June 12, 1949 |
Negro Cinderella (Lena Horne) |
| June 19, 1949 |
Ghost Editor (Roscoe Dunjee) |
| June 26, 1949 |
Harriet's Children (first anniversary program) |
| July 3, 1949 |
Norfolk Miracle (Dorothy Maynor) |
| July 17, 1949 |
Tales of Stackalee (black folklore hero) |
| July 24, 1949 |
The John Henry Story (black folklore hero) |
| July 31, 1949 |
The Trumpet Talks (Louis Armstrong) |
| August 7, 1949 |
The Long Road (Mary Church Terrell) |
| August 14, 1949 |
Black Hamlet--Part I (Henri Christophe) |
| August 21, 1949 |
Black Hamlet--Part II (Henri Christophe) |
| August 28, 1949 |
Segregation, Incorporated (dramatization of the report of the Committee Against Segregation in the Nation's Capital) |
| September 4, 1949 |
The Saga of Blanche K. Bruce |
| September 11, 1949 |
The Tiger Hunt (761st Tank Battallion) |
| September 18, 1949 |
Poet in Bronzeville (Gwendolyn Brooks) |
| September 25, 1949 |
A Garage in Gainesville (Part I in a series on Prejudice) |
| October 2, 1949 |
Execution Awaited (Part II in a series on Prejudice) |
| October 9, 1949 |
Father to Son (Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and Jr.) |
| October 16, 1949 |
Of Blood and the Boogie (Albert Ammons) |
| October 23, 1949 |
Diary of a Nurse (Jane Edna Hunter ) |
| October 30, 1949 |
Keeper of the Dream (Captain Hugh Mulzac) |
| November 6, 1949 |
The Man Who Owned Chicago (Jean-Baptiste Point DuSable) |
| November 13, 1949 |
Blind Alley Symphony (Dean Dixon) |
| November 20, 1949 |
The Tale of the Tobacco Auctioneer (Kenneth R. Williams) |
| December 4, 1949 |
Joe Rainey Versus the Status Quo (Judge Joseph Homer Rainy) |
| January 15, 1950 |
The Birth of a League (Urban League) |
| January 22, 1950 |
Lawyer of Liberty (William Henry Huff) |
| January 29, 1950 |
Portrait of Bill Robinson |
| February 5, 1950 |
Housing: Chicago |
| February 12, 1950 |
Recorder of History (Dr. Carter G. Woodson) |
| February 19, 1950 |
Brotherhood Week Begins at Home (Brotherhood Week) |
| February 26, 1950 |
The Umfundisi of Ndotsheni (Todd Duncan) |
| March 5, 1950 |
Atlanta Thesis (E. Franklin Frazier) |
| March 12, 1950 |
Premonition of the Panther (Sugar Ray Robinson) |
| March 19, 1950 |
The Making of a Balladier (Lonnie Johnson) |
| March 26, 1950 |
The Liberators--Part I (William Lloyd Garrison) |
| April 2, 1950 |
The Liberators--Part II (Wendell Phillips) |
| April 9, 1950 |
The Buddy Young Story |
| April 16, 1950 |
The Fifth District Crime Fighter (Captain Kinzie Bleuitt) |
| April 23, 1950 |
Dance Anthropologist (Katherine Dunham) |
| May 7, 1950 |
The Case of Samuel Johnson (Judge Jane Bolin) |
| May 14, 1950 |
The Sorrow Songs (Black Spirituals) |
| May 21, 1950 |
John Hope, Educator |
| June 4, 1950 |
The Grave Diggers' Handicap (Isaac Murphy) |
| June 11, 1950 |
The Shy Boy (Thomas "Fats" Waller) |
| June 18, 1950 |
The Case of the Congressman's Train Ride (Richard Westbrooks) |
| June 25, 1950 |
The Angel of Federal Street (Ruth Blue Turnquest) |
| July 2, 1950 |
Kansas City Phone Call (Nat King Cole) |
| July 9, 1950 |
Mr. Jericho Adjusts a Claim (William Nickerson) |
| July 16, 1950 |
Test By Fire (Dr. Charlotte Hawkins) |
| July 23, 1950 |
Sing a Song for Children (Pruth |
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