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 18: The Story of A Year 1875
2020 is a contentious election year in America filled with lies, violence, voter suppression, and intimation. That’s nothing new in the history of our country. Let’s look at the year 1875. In this episode, we hear The Story of Charles Caldwell, the senator who had been a slave. No issue concerned black Representatives more than the civil rights bill of 1875, but attacks and intimidation continued. Caldwell himself was assassinated later that year. This episode features the haunting vocal of Otis Taylor
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