Destination Freedom — 1949
47 episodes broadcast in 1949.
Dramatizes Oscar De Priest, the Chicago congressman who in 1929 became the first Black member of the House in the twentieth century.
Dramatizes William H. Hastie, jurist and governor of the Virgin Islands, in a boyhood contest of will.
January 16, 1949
The Chopin Murder Case
January 23, 1949
The World's Fastest Human
January 30, 1949
The Last Letter Home
February 6, 1949
Searcher for History
February 13, 1949
The Death of Aesop
Ralph Bunche, the political scientist whose United Nations mediation of the Arab-Israeli armistice would earn him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dramatizes Paul R. Williams, the Los Angeles architect who designed landmark homes and public buildings.
Dramatizes Canada Lee, the boxer-turned-actor of stage and screen later broken by the Hollywood blacklist.
Dramatizes Booker T. Washington and his rise from slavery to found Tuskegee Institute.
Dramatizes the novelist Richard Wright, author of 'Native Son' and 'Black Boy.'
Dramatizes Dr. Charles R. Drew, the physician whose blood-plasma research saved countless wartime lives.
Dramatizes Countee Cullen, the lyric poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Dramatizes Ida B. Wells, the journalist whose anti-lynching crusade named a national shame.
Dramatizes Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first Black American poet to win a national readership.
April 24, 1949
Apostle of Freedom
Dramatizes the blues and folk singer Josh White, a voice of protest on record and stage.
Dramatizes Satchel Paige, the legendary pitcher of the Negro Leagues who reached the majors in his forties.
May 22, 1949
The Secretary of Peace
Dramatizes Henry Armstrong, the only boxer to hold three world titles at once.
Dramatizes Chicago alderman Archibald Carey and a fight over a city civil-rights ordinance.
Dramatizes Lena Horne, the singer and actress who refused the demeaning roles Hollywood offered.
Dramatizes Roscoe Dunjee, the Oklahoma editor and civil-rights organizer.
A first-anniversary program looking back across the season -- 'Harriet's Children,' the figures the series had dramatized.
Dramatizes the concert soprano Dorothy Maynor.
Dramatizes the Black folk hero Stack Lee (Stagolee) of ballad legend.
Dramatizes the steel-driving folk hero John Henry.
Dramatizes Louis Armstrong, whose trumpet remade American music.
Dramatizes Mary Church Terrell, educator, suffragist and a founder of the NAACP.
Part one on Henri Christophe, the revolutionary who rose to crown himself king of Haiti.
Part two concludes the tragic reign of Haiti's Henri Christophe.
A dramatization of a civil-rights committee report on the machinery of segregation.
Dramatizes Blanche K. Bruce, the Mississippi Reconstruction senator who had been born enslaved.
Dramatizes the 761st Tank Battalion, the pioneering Black armored unit of World War II.
Dramatizes the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, chronicler of Chicago's Bronzeville, soon to win the Pulitzer Prize.
In this study of prejudice, a white businessman is pressed to join a mob against his Black partner, wrongly accused of assaulting a white woman -- an episode later named to the National Recording Registry.
A companion drama on prejudice and the machinery of a wrongful execution -- also preserved in the National Recording Registry.
Dramatizes the Powells, father and son, of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and Congress.
Dramatizes the boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.
October 23, 1949
Diary of a Nurse
Dramatizes Captain Hugh Mulzac, first Black American to command a merchant ship, the SS Booker T. Washington.
Dramatizes Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the Haitian trader who founded the settlement that became Chicago.
November 13, 1949
Blind Alley Symphony
November 20, 1949
The Tale of the Tobacco Auctioneer
November 27, 1949
The Death of Aesop
December 4, 1949
Joe Rainey Versus the Status Quo
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