Richard Durham's Destination Freedom
Scripts From Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950
Radio Log:
Destination Freedom, 1948-1950
| DATE | TITLE |
| June 27, 1948 | The Knock-Kneed Man (Crispus Attucks) |
| July 4, 1948 | Railway to Freedom (Harriet Tubman) |
| July 11, 1948 | Dark Explorers (Blacks accompanying Pizzarro and Balboa) |
| July 18, 1948 | The Denmark Vesey Story |
| July 25, 1948 | The Making of a Man (Frederick Douglass--Part I) |
| August 1, 1948 | The Key to Freedom (Frederick Douglass--Part II) |
| August 8, 1948 |
The Heart of George Cotton (Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams) |
| August 15, 1948 | Truth Goes to Washington (Sojourner Truth) |
| August 22, 1948 | Arctic Biography (Matthew Henson) |
| August 29, 1948 | The Story of 1875 (Senator Charles Caldwell) |
| September 5, 1948 | Poet of Pine Mill (James Weldon Johnson) |
| September 12, 1948 | The Father of the Blues (W.C. Handy) |
| September 19, 1948 | Boy with a Dream (Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins) |
| September 26, 1948 | Shakespeare of Harlem (Langston Hughes) |
| October 3, 1948 | Citizen Toussaint (Toussaint L'Ouverture) |
| October 10, 1948 | Little David (Joe Louis) |
| October 17, 1948 | The Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse
(George Washington Carver) |
| November 7, 1948 | Echoes of Harlem (Duke Ellington) |
| November 14, 1948 | One Out of Seventeen (Mary McLeod Bethune) |
| November 21, 1948 | The Rime of the Ancient Dodger (Jackie Robinson) |
| November 28, 1948 | Investigator for Democracy (Walter White) |
| December 5, 1948 | Autobiography of a Hero (Dorie Miller) |
| December 12, 1948 | The Pied Piper Versus Paul Revere (Albert Merritt) |
| December 19, 1948 | Choir Girl from Philadelphia (Marian Anderson) |
| December 26, 1948 | Mike Rex (Willard Motley) |
| January 2, 1949 | Maiden Speech (Congressman Oscar DePriest) |
| January 9, 1949 | The Boy Who Beat the Bus (Governor William H. Hastie) |
| January 16, 1949 | The Chopin Murder Case (Hazel Scott) |
| January 23, 1949 | The World's Fastest Human (Jesse Owens) |
| January 30, 1949 | Last Letter Home (332nd Fighter Group) |
| February 6, 1949 | Searcher for History (W.E.B. DuBois) |
| February 13, 1949 | The Death of Aesop |
| February 20, 1949 | Peace Mediator (Dr. Ralph Bunche) |
| February 27, 1949 | The Houses That Paul Built (Paul Williams) |
| March 6, 1949 | Do Something! Be Somebody! (Canada Lee) |
| March 13, 1949 | Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) |
| March 20, 1949 | Black Boy (Richard Wright) |
| March 27, 1949 | Transfusion (Dr. Charles R. Drew) |
| April 3, 1949 | Pagan Poet (Countee Cullen) |
| April 10, 1949 | Woman with a Mission (Ida B. Wells) |
| April 17, 1949 | Before I Sleep (Paul Lawrence Dunbar) |
| April 24, 1949 | Apostle of Freedom (Richard Allen) |
| May 1, 1949 | Help the Blind (Josh White) |
| May 15, 1949 | The Ballad of Satchel Paige |
| May 22, 1949 | The Secretary of Peace (Benjamin Banneker) |
| May 29, 1949 | The Saga of Melody Jackson (Henry Armstrong) |
| June 5, 1949 | Anatomy of an Ordinance (Alderman Archibald Carey) |
| June 12, 1949 | Negro Cinderella (Lena Horne) |
| June 19, 1949 | Ghost Editor (Roscoe Dunjee) |
| June 26, 1949 | Harriet's Children (first anniversary program) |
| July 3, 1949 | Norfolk Miracle (Dorothy Maynor) |
| July 17, 1949 | Tales of Stackalee (black folklore hero) |
| July 24, 1949 | The John Henry Story (black folklore hero) |
| July 31, 1949 | The Trumpet Talks (Louis Armstrong) |
| August 7, 1949 | The Long Road (Mary Church Terrell) |
| August 14, 1949 | Black Hamlet--Part I (Henri Christophe) |
| August 21, 1949 | Black Hamlet--Part II (Henri Christophe) |
| August 28, 1949 | Segregation, Incorporated (dramatization of the report of the Committee Against Segregation in the Nation's Capital) |
| September 4, 1949 | The Saga of Blanche K. Bruce |
| September 11, 1949 | The Tiger Hunt (761st Tank Battallion) |
| September 18, 1949 | Poet in Bronzeville (Gwendolyn Brooks) |
| September 25, 1949 | A Garage in Gainesville (Part I in a series on Prejudice) |
| October 2, 1949 | Execution Awaited (Part II in a series on Prejudice) |
| October 9, 1949 | Father to Son (Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and Jr.) |
| October 16, 1949 | Of Blood and the Boogie (Albert Ammons) |
| October 23, 1949 | Diary of a Nurse (Jane Edna Hunter) |
| October 30, 1949 | Keeper of the Dream (Captain Hugh Mulzac) |
| November 6, 1949 | The Man Who Owned Chicago (Jean-Baptiste Point DuSable) |
| November 13, 1949 | Blind Alley Symphony (Dean Dixon) |
| November 20, 1949 | The Tale of the Tobacco Auctioneer (Kenneth R. Williams) |
| December 4, 1949 | Joe Rainey Versus the Status Quo (Judge Joseph Homer Rainy) |
| January 15, 1950 | The Birth of a League (Urban League) |
| January 22, 1950 | Lawyer of Liberty (William Henry Huff) |
| January 29, 1950 | Portrait of Bill Robinson |
| February 5, 1950 | Housing: Chicago |
| February 12, 1950 | Recorder of History (Dr. Carter G. Woodson) |
| February 19, 1950 | Brotherhood Week Begins at Home (Brotherhood Week) |
| February 26, 1950 | The Umfundisi of Ndotsheni (Todd Duncan) |
| March 5, 1950 | Atlanta Thesis (E. Franklin Frazier) |
| March 12, 1950 | Premonition of the Panther (Sugar Ray Robinson) |
| March 19, 1950 | The Making of a Balladier (Lonnie Johnson) |
| March 26, 1950 | The Liberators--Part I (William Lloyd Garrison) |
| April 2, 1950 | The Liberators--Part II (Wendell Phillips) |
| April 9, 1950 | The Buddy Young Story |
| April 16, 1950 | The Fifth District Crime Fighter (Captain Kinzie Bleuitt) |
| April 23, 1950 | Dance Anthropologist (Katherine Dunham) |
| May 7, 1950 | The Case of Samuel Johnson (Judge Jane Bolin) |
| May 14, 1950 | The Sorrow Songs (Black Spirituals) |
| May 21, 1950 | John Hope, Educator |
| June 4, 1950 | The Grave Diggers' Handicap (Isaac Murphy) |
| June 11, 1950 | The Shy Boy (Thomas "Fats" Waller) |
| June 18, 1950 | The Case of the Congressman's Train Ride (Richard Westbrooks) |
| June 25, 1950 | The Angel of Federal Street (Ruth Blue Turnquest) |
| July 2, 1950 | Kansas City Phone Call (Nat King Cole) |
| July 9, 1950 | Mr. Jericho Adjusts a Claim (William Nickerson) |
| July 16, 1950 | Test By Fire (Dr. Charlotte Hawkins) |
| July 23, 1950 | Sing a Song for Children (Pruth McFarlin) |
Beginning October 15, 1950, Destination Freedom, after being off the air since August 13, 1950, returned in its new Cold War, patriotic format. The new productions seldom featured African-American characters. None of the scripts for the revamped format was written by Richard Durham.
TOTAL: 97 scripts performed, all written by Richard Durham.
