A live audio drama that picks up where the first nationwide African-American radio drama, produced in Chicago by Richard Durham more than sixty years ago, left off. The show walked a daring line between reform and revolution, and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting. As well as drawing on the archive of Destination Freedom (now branded Destination Freedom Black Radio Days, this program illuminates a largely unknown, but important chapter in the history of human rights and tells how radio played its part from the very beginning. That boundary-breaking program, Destination Freedom, dramatized the lives of great figures in African-American and other people of color past and present, continues in its spirit with all-new scripts. This series honors and expands on that theme. Part of the Broadway Podcast Network
https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcast/destination-freedom-black-radio-days/
episode 2: Ruth Blue Turnquest, “The Angel of Federal Street"
“The Angel of Federal Street” tells the story of the great humanitarian of Chicago, Ruth Blue Turnquest. What happens when the Angel Gabriel is calling role of new names of Heavenly angels and the Pearly Gates get stuck? The name of a person still on earth is called and Saint Peter and the rest of the Angels have to get to the bottom of the problem. One section of Chicago’s South Federal Street is backed up against the railroad tracks - a treeless avenue with rows of run-down houses and one ancient grade school. But one factor lifts this district above the others - it is the living legend of the “Angel of Federal Street” - of that ancient grade school’s assistant principal, Ruth Blue Turnquest.
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