The Saga Of Melody Jackson
This episode tells the true story of Henry Armstrong, a Black boxer who made history as the only fighter ever to simultaneously hold three world championship titles.
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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 Saga Of Melody Jackson.” Destination Freedom. Radio broadcast, May 29, 1949.
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