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 21: Freedom Riders
From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans laid their lives—many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South.
episode 22: Interview/Conversation with Anthony P. Young PhD
This episode features Dr. Anthony Young, who has been practicing mental health in Colorado for over forty years.
episode 23: The Little Rock Nine
On Sept. 25, 1957, the common goal for the nine students entering Central High School was to receive the same educational opportunities afforded white people
episode 24: Carter G. Woodson, Recorder of History
Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.