Destination Freedom (1948): The Liberators - Part I (#84) [William Lloyd Garrison]

Destination Freedom (1948): 03/26/50, episode 84
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As a chronicler of the Black experience, Durham did not fail to applaud the historically supportive role played by whites in the struggle against prejudice. Usually, such characters appeared in stories focusing on black central figures, but in a two-part series entitled "The Liberators," Durham treated two of the leading white abolitionists of the decades before emancipation: William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. Particularly in the play about Garrison (1805-1879) and his earlier years in Boston as publisher of the influential Liberator newspaper, there is a balance between Durham's understanding of freedom attainable through interracial cooperation and the historic reality of persons of moral rectitude transcending race to stand alone, sometimes dangerously so, against the passion and prejudice of the ignorant. [MacDonald]
Cast: Richard Durham (writer), Homer Heck (producer), Dick Loughran (director), George Kluge (William Lloyd Garrison), Maurice Copeland (Wendell Phillips), Fred Pinkard, Janice Kingslow, Wiley Hancock, Dean Olmquist, Oscar Brown Jr., Emil Soderstrom (composer), Elwyn Owen (organist), Jose Bethancourt (music), Gary Dublee (technician), Cliff Mueller (sound effects), Charles Mountain (announcer)
#85 "The Liberators - Part II" (Wendell Phillips) is not known to exist.