The Birth Of A League
This episode was made in partnership with The Chicago Urban League and explores the movement of African Americans to Northern cities, along with the founding of the Urban League organization. The episode includes an interview with the president of the Urban League.
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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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“The Birth Of A League.” Destination Freedom. Radio broadcast, January 15, 1950.
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