Dark Explorers
This episode was made in partnership with The Chicago Defender and tells the story of Black explorers who played a key role in discovering and opening up the New World.
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Destination Freedom was a series of weekly radio programs that was produced by WMAQ in Chicago. The first set ran from 1948 to 1950 and it presented the biographical histories of prominent African Americans such as George Washington Carver, Satchel Paige, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Lena Horne. The scripts for those shows were written by Richard Durham. Studs Terkel voiced some of the radio characters. Hugh Downs also served as an announcer in both the initial and 1950 series.
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“Dark Explorers.” Destination Freedom. Radio broadcast, July 11, 1948.
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