Destination Freedom — 1950
42 episodes broadcast in 1950.
January 8, 1950
The Capture
Dramatizes the founding of the National Urban League and its work for Black economic opportunity.
January 22, 1950
Lawyer of Liberty
January 29, 1950
Portrait of Bill Robinson
February 5, 1950
Housing: Chicago
Dramatizes Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founder of Negro History Week and 'father of Black history.'
February 19, 1950
Brotherhood Week Begins at Home
February 26, 1950
The Umfundisi of Ndotsheni
March 5, 1950
Atlanta Thesis
Dramatizes the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson at the height of his craft.
March 19, 1950
The Making of a Balladier
Part one on the abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison and his paper 'The Liberator.'
April 2, 1950
The Liberators Part II
Dramatizes the football and baseball star Claude 'Buddy' Young.
Dramatizes Captain Kinzie Bluitt of the Chicago police.
Dramatizes Katherine Dunham, the dancer and anthropologist who built a Black dance tradition on the concert stage.
May 7, 1950
The Case of Samuel Johnson
May 14, 1950
The Sorrow Songs
May 21, 1950
John Hope, Educator
June 4, 1950
The Grave Digger's Handicap
Dramatizes Thomas 'Fats' Waller, the exuberant stride pianist and songwriter.
June 18, 1950
The Case of the Congressman's Train Ride
Dramatizes Ruth Blue Turnquest and her community work.
Dramatizes Nat King Cole, the pianist and velvet-voiced singer.
Dramatizes William Nickerson, a founder of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
July 16, 1950
Test by Fire
July 23, 1950
Sing a Song for Children
July 30, 1950
The Knock-Kneed Man
August 6, 1950
The Peace Mediator
A restaging of 'The Last Letter Home,' the story of the 332nd Fighter Group.
October 22, 1950
(untitled)
October 29, 1950
(untitled)
November 5, 1950
(untitled)
December 3, 1950
(untitled)
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