Destination Freedom
Broadcast · 1948 · Seasonal
WMAQ Chicago
WMAQ Chicago · 1948–1951
Broadcasts
102
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- WMAQ Chicago
- Years active
- 1948–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 102
- Genre
- drama
Richard Durham's landmark series dramatising Black American lives — the most ambitious writing about race anywhere on 1940s radio. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
23 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Knock Kneed Man · 27 Jun 1948
- 2. Railway to Freedom · 4 Jul 1948
- 3. Dark Explorers · 11 Jul 1948
- 01
The Knock Kneed Man
27 Jun 1948 · 29 min
- 02
Railway to Freedom
4 Jul 1948 · 29 min
- 03
Dark Explorers
11 Jul 1948 · 29 min
- 04
The Denmark Vesey Story
18 Jul 1948 · 28 min
- 05
The Making of a Man
25 Jul 1948 · 28 min
- 06
The Key to Freedom
1 Aug 1948 · 29 min
- 07
The Heart of George Cotton
8 Aug 1948 · 29 min
- 08
Arctic Autograph
22 Aug 1948 · 29 min
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