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Radio historian Donnie Betts reflects on the dramatic innovation of the 1940s series Destination Freedom. Broadcast out of Chicago, and written and produced by black activist Richard Durham, Destination Freedom used docudrama to profile the lives of prominent African Americans. This was unheard of. It was also a political salvo - taking to task American segregation laws a decade before the modern civil rights movement got underway.