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Chicago Public Library
Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection

Richard Durham Papers, 1939 – 1999

Collection Number:	Richard Durham 1998/02
Provenance:	Donation of Clarice Durham (June, November and December 1998). See “Note on Provenance” below.
Size:	14 archival boxes, 8 linear feet
Repository:	Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History andLiterature Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library 9525 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60628
Access:	No restrictions
Citation:	When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Richard Durham Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Chicago Public Library.
Processed by:	Allyson Hobbs, August 2007

Note on the Provenance

Clarice Durham, wife of Richard Durham, donated the Richard Durham Papers to the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection in June, November and December of 1998.

Richard Durham created Destination Freedom, a groundbreaking radio series that dramatized the struggle for civil rights in America. Destination Freedom aired on WMAQ, a Chicago radio station, on Sunday mornings from 1948 to 1950. In March 2005, Clarice Durham donated the ninety-one audiotapes to the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Portions of this collection are available on the online archives section of the Museum of Broadcast Communications website (http://www.museum.tv/home.php) and the complete collection is available for listening at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, located at 400 North State Street, Suite 240, Chicago, Illinois, 60610.

Richard Durham’s essay, “Don’t Spend Your Money Where You Can’t Work” (1938?), from the Negro Newspaper Study, is located in the Illinois Writers’ Project collection, Box 41, Folder 7. This essay borrows its title from a slogan of the Chicago Whip newspaper and describes the movement that used the black consumer boycott as part of an appeal for economic justice.

Several documents relating to the appearances of the Destination Freedom cast at the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library are located in the Hall Branch Library Archives, Box 3.

Biographical Note

Richard Durham was born on September 6, 1917 in Raymond, Mississippi, a small rural community in Hindes County. His father, a farmer, aspired to a better life outside of the South and moved the family to Chicago when Durham was seven years old. Durham attended Hyde Park High School and Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, Durham joined the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration and received training and experience as a radio scriptwriter. When this project ended, Durham joined the staff of the Chicago Defender. Durham’s first major experience with radio came between 1946 and 1948 when he wrote scripts for a series on black achievement, Democracy U.S.A., which aired on WBBM, a CBS station. A workplace injury unexpectedly began Durham’s writing career. While working at a shade cleaning plant, he injured his foot by standing in a chemical solution with shoes that were not waterproof. While he was recovering, his sister gave him a typewriter and he began to write poetry and soon won first prize in a poetry contest. Durham created and wrote all the scripts for Here Comes Tomorrow, a black soap opera that aired on WJJD. Destination Freedom, a dramatic radio series on WMAQ in Chicago, brought the freedom struggles of African Americans to Chicago listening audiences on Sunday mornings between 1948 and 1950. Durham’s prolific writing career would span four decades and would extend far beyond radio: Durham edited the official publication of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad Speaks in the 1960s; he created the television series Bird of the Iron Feather in the early 1970s; he co-authored The Greatest, the autobiography of boxing champion Muhammad Ali, which was published in 1977; and he wrote numerous speeches for Chicago’s first African American mayor, Harold Washington, in the 1980s.

The premier of Destination Freedom on June 27, 1948 signaled a landmark in African American broadcasting history. Drawing on the talents of young intellectuals and entertainers including Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden, Fred Pinkard and Vernon Jarrett, Durham developed scripts that captured the lives and struggles of everyday men and women as well as prominent African Americans. Unlike the typical radio fare of its time, Destination Freedom featured social dramas that eloquently appealed for racial justice. As Durham explained, “the real-life story of a single Negro in Alabama walking into a voting booth across a Ku Klux Klan line has more drama and world implications than all the stereotypes Hollywood or radio can turn out in a thousand years.” In striking contrast to the hackneyed images of blacks and as a remedy to the gross underrepresentation of blacks in radio production, Durham cast black actors in leading roles and told the stories of activists and leaders including Frederick Douglass, Toussaint L’Ouverture and Mary Church Terrell; writers and artists including Richard Wright, Katherine Dunham and Gwendolyn Brooks and cultural legends such as Stackalee and John Henry.

Hours of careful research at the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library with Vivian Harsh’s assistance, close readings of autobiographies, monographs and speeches and skilled scriptwriting brought these historical and contemporary figures to life in poignant detail on Destination Freedom. Certain of the redemptive power of black history and education, Durham went beyond recounting the biographies of these figures and focused on the ways that they overcame racial injustice through resistance. Durham challenged network protocols to ensure that the series featured black women as equally important, history-making figures. The series lacked a sponsor for most of the time it aired on WMAQ, but by relying on his earlier connections, Durham persuaded the Chicago Defender to fund the first weeks of the broadcast and the Urban League sponsored several broadcasts in 1950. Despite Durham’s efforts to exercise authorial control over the series, WMAQ edited, controlled final script approval and rejected the more controversial stories of the lives of Nat Turner and Paul Robeson. Despite these conflicts, the station recognized the import and the success of the show when in 1949, it won a prestigious first-place award from the Institute for Education by Radio. On the anniversary of its first episode, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson commended the program for its efforts in increasing racial tolerance and in educating the public on the contributions of African Americans. Despite these accolades, WMAQ canceled Destination Freedom in 1950, just as the rising tide of anti-Communist conservatism began to adversely affect radio and the arts.

Durham remained actively involved in civil rights struggles throughout his life. In the 1950s, he worked as the national program director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Durham was hired to write a pamphlet on the accomplishments of the union’s anti-discrimination department. The pamphlet, “Action Against Jim Crow: UPWA’s Fight for Equal Rights,” described the progressive work of the union to end job discrimination and to elevate women to equal status and equal pay in the workplace. The union was so pleased with Durham’s work that they hired him as the head of the program office and he wrote and developed materials to publicize the union’s programs and events. But conflict arose as Durham continued to put pressure on the union to support and to prioritize black advancement. In 1957, he was forced to resign.

After leaving the union, Durham worked as a freelance journalist. In the 1960s, he became the editor of Muhammad Speaks, the weekly publication of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. Durham sought to provide an international perspective to the newspaper and included several articles on the independence struggles of African nations in the 1960s. In 1971, Durham created a television series, Bird of the Iron Feather, which aired on WTTW, a local PBS station in Chicago. Described as a “soul drama” and funded by the Ford Foundation, this series was praised for introducing more authentic television programming and for portraying African American life in a more realistic fashion. Given the dearth of blacks in television production, Bird of the Iron Feather broke new ground by being almost exclusively written, directed and produced by blacks. While working as an editor for Muhammad Speaks, Durham was asked to assist Muhammad Ali in writing his autobiography, The Greatest, which was published in 1977.

Richard Durham met Clarice Davis in the early 1940s while both were volunteering with the National Negro Congress. Clarice was born in Mobile, Alabama and moved to Chicago when she was eleven years old. She attended Wendell Phillips High School until it was temporarily closed because of a fire. She graduated from DuSable High School where she was the valedictorian of her class. The couple married in 1942. During their married life, Ms. Durham was an early childhood educator. She also made significant contributions to Durham’s work by reading, editing and typing many of the Destination Freedom scripts. Mrs. Durham has remained a lifelong human rights activist. After working for the National Negro Congress, she was a member of the Progressive Party in Chicago in the late 1940s. Mrs. Durham continues to be an activist for the Chicago chapter of the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression and has campaigned for freedom for Mark Clements, a victim of police torture. Richard and Clarice Durham have one son, Mark Durham.

Richard Durham died on April 27, 1984 while on a business trip in New York. At the time of his death, Durham was researching the life of Hannibal, the illustrious Carthagenian warrior who planned to conquer Rome. Mayor Harold Washington delivered the eulogy at his memorial service and a number of famous Chicagoans including historian Dempsey Travis, entertainer and former Destination Freedom cast member Oscar Brown Jr. and Congressmen Charles Hayes and Gus Savage attended the service.

In August 2007, Richard Durham was selected for induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

Scope and Content Note

The Richard Durham Collection is comprised mostly of manuscripts and primarily includes scripts written for the Destination Freedom and Bird of the Iron Feather series. Additional manuscript material includes scripts written for Democracy, U.S.A. as well as the page proofs for the autobiography of Muhammad Ali, The Greatest, published in 1977. The collection also contains clippings, correspondence, photographs and serials. The collection is organized into the following three series: Manuscripts, Photographs and Audio-Visual Materials, and Serials.

Manuscripts, Boxes 1-12 (1939 – 1978)
The manuscripts series comprise the lion’s share of the collection. Boxes 1-4 consist of Destination Freedom scripts, which are organized by airdate. These scripts include the stories of numerous African American leaders, activists and cultural figures including W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright, John Henry, Gwendolyn Brooks, and “Fats” Waller. The scripts from a two-part series exploring racial prejudice and racial violence and a program on housing inequality in Chicago are also included. A folder in Box 4 titled “Destination Freedom memorabilia” consists of correspondence from May 1949 regarding the appearance of the cast at the Parkway Community House as well as a first anniversary program and materials on “Destination Freedom Week,” a series of events promoted by the Chicago Radio Listeners Appreciation Guild. Box 5 consists of scripts that Durham wrote while he was a member of the WPA’s Writers’ Project. These scripts, from the Great Artists Series, were broadcast on WGN between 1940 and 1942 and include stories on Spanish painter Francisco Goya, Mexican painter Jose Orozco, and French painter Henri Matisse. Clippings of articles about racial injustice written by Richard Durham for the Chicago Defender are also contained in Box 5, such as: “Crump Thinks Negroes Given Fair Treatment,” in which Durham interviewed Edward Crump, the head of Memphis’ Democratic political party (April 8, 1944); an article about a bellboy who was flogged by a deputy in a county jail in Belleville, Illinois (August 5, 1944); and an article about Owosso, Michigan, the hometown of Governor Thomas Dewey, the Republican nominee for President, in which residents boasted of “never allowing a Negro to stay overnight” (August 22, 1944). While working as the national program director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Durham created a pamphlet, “Action Against Jim Crow: UPWA’s Fight for Equal Rights.” Included in Box 5, this pamphlet tells the story of an experienced packinghouse worker who could not get a job at Swift & Company because of racial discrimination. The worker’s experiences are juxtaposed with her son’s service in the armed forces during the Korean War. The worker’s son wonders why black men are dying overseas for a country that refuses to provide decent jobs for all of its citizens.

Box 6 contains Durham’s research notes taken while he was writing the scripts for Destination Freedom and a copy of Earl Dickerson’s speech for the ASP Negro Rights Forum given in the 1940s. This box also consists of various correspondence including letters regarding Muhammad Ali’s autobiography, The Greatest and letters that discussed the television series Bird of the Iron Feather. Of particular interest is a handwritten note from artist Jacob Lawrence dated May 17, 1949 that provides Lawrence’s biographical information and a list of his achievements. Letters from Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, to government officials requesting copies of all documents listed under the name of Emmett Till’s father, Louis Till, are also included. Durham helped Mobley to draft these letters and urged her to submit them before access to such information, granted by the Freedom of Information Act, was curtailed by the Reagan administration. Poetry by Richard Durham, including poems published in the Chicago Defender in 1937 and 1938, are also included. One letter is of special note: Durham corresponded with Langston Hughes and received a letter dated September 10, 1939 regarding Hughes’ comments on Durham’s poetry. Copies of Durham’s poems with Hughes’ handwritten notations accompany the letter.

Box 7 includes scripts from Democracy, U.S.A. and Bird of the Iron Feather. Box 8 contains fragments of scripts and a biographical sketch of Durham. Materials related to Durham’s lawsuit against NBC comprise Box 9. Durham filed suit to gain NBC’s admission that Destination Freedom was Durham’s exclusive creation and property. After Destination Freedom was canceled, the network used the same title to broadcast a show that aired at the same time with a similar format. Box 10 includes scripts from Bird of the Iron Feather, and Boxes 11 and 12 contain typescript and page proofs from Muhammad Ali’s autobiography, The Greatest.

Photographs and Audio-Visual Materials, Box 13 (1949, 1970, 1999, 2007)

This series includes twenty-nine photographs, mostly of the cast members of Destination Freedom. These photographs capture the cast reading scripts and participating in community programs. Individual photographs feature the following actors: Louise Pruitt, Fred Pinkard, Oscar Brown, Jr., and Janice Kingslow. Other photographs capture Richard Durham sitting at his typewriter, writing Destination Freedom. This series also contains a reprint of Destination Freedom publicity materials, a photograph of Richard Durham while he is being interviewed about Bird of the Iron Feather, historical photographs of Ida B. Wells Barnett, a reproduction of a page from a script on Harriet Tubman and an honorable withdrawal card from the American Newspaper Guild.

This series also includes two audio-visual materials: a VHS tape, “The Sound of Freedom,” by Afaf Qayyum from the 1999 Chicago Metro History Fair and an interview with Clarice Davis Durham and Charles Durham recorded by StoryCorps Griot in July 2007.

Serials, Box 14 (1964 - 1975)

This series includes copies of Muhammad Speaks, the publication of the Nation of Islam, which Durham edited. Durham brought an international perspective to the newspaper and included several articles on the independence struggles of African nations in the 1960s. Also contained in this series are the oversized, bound editions of Muhammad Speaks, published between September 1964 and April 1967.

Series I: Manuscripts, 1939 - 1978
Box 1	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Radio Log: Destination Freedom, 1948 - 1950
		Radio log, list of programs airing on Destination Freedom between 1948 and 1950
	Folder 2	"Crispus Attucks," 6/27/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on Crispus Attucks
	Folder 3	Harriet Tubman, 7/4/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program, "Railway to Freedom, The Story of Harriet Tubman"
	Folder 4	"Dark Explorers," 7/11/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on Negro explorers
	Folder 5	"Saga of Denmark Vesey," 7/18/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on Denmark Vesey
	Folder 6	Frederick Douglass, Part I, 7/25/48
		Script for "The Making of a Man" program on Frederick Douglass
	Folder 7	Frederick Douglass, Part II, 8/1/48
		Script for Part II of Frederick Douglass program
	Folder 8	U.G. Dailey and Daniel Hale Williams, 8/8/48
		Script for "The Heart of Geo. Cotton," The Story of Dr. U.G. Dailey and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
	Folder 9	Sojourner Truth, 8/15/48
		Script for "Truth Goes to Washington," The Story of Sojourner Truth
	Folder 10	Matthew Henson, 8/22/48
		Script for "Arctic Autograph," The Story of Matthew Henson
	Folder 11	Sen. Charles Caldwell, 8/29/48
		Script for "The Story of 1875," The Life and Death of Senator Charles Caldwell
	Folder 12	James Weldon Johnson, 9/5/48
		Script for "Poet in Pine Mill," The Story of James Weldon Johnson
	Folder 13	"'Father of the Blues' -- W.C. Handy," 9/12/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on W.C. Handy
	Folder 14	J. Ernest Wilkins, 9/19/48
		Script for "Boy with a Dream," The Story of Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins
	Folder 15	"Shakespeare of Harlem -- Langston Hughes," 9/26/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on Langston Hughes
	Folder 16	"Citizen Toussaint," 10/3/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on Toussaint L'Ouverture
	Folder 17	Little David (Joe Louis) 10/10/48
		Script for program on Joe Louis
	Folder 18	George Washington Carver, 10/17/48
		Script for program, "The Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse," The Story of George Washington Carver
	Folder 19	Duke Ellington, 11/7/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Echoes of Harlem," The Story of Duke Ellington
	Folder 20	Mary McLeod Bethune, 11/14/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "One Out of Seventeen," The Story of Mary McLeod Bethune
	Folder 21	Jackie Robinson, 11/21/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Rime of the Ancient Dodger," The Story of Jackie Robinson
	Folder 22	Walter White, 11/28/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Investigator for Democracy," The Story of Walter White
	Folder 23	Dorie Miller, 12/5/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Autobiography of a Hero," The Story of Dorie Miller
	Folder 24	Albert Merritt, 12/12/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Pied Piper vs. Paul Revere," The Story of Albert Merritt
	Folder 25	Marian Anderson, 12/19/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Choir Girl from Philadelphia," The Story of Marian Anderson
	Folder 26	Willard Motley, 12/26/48, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on Willard Motley

Box 2	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Oscar DePriest, 1/2/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Maiden Speech," The Story of Oscar DePriest
	Folder 2	William Hastie, 1/9/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Boy Who Beat the Bus," The Story of William H. Hastie
	Folder 3	Hazel Scott, 1/16/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Chopin Murder Case," The Story of Hazel Scott
	Folder 4	Jesse Owens, 1/23/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "World's Fastest Human," The Story of Jesse Owens
	Folder 5	332nd Fighter Group, 1/30/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Last Letter Home," The Story of the 332nd Fighter Group
	Folder 6	W.E.B. DuBois, 2/6/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Search for History," The Story of W.E.B. DuBois
	Folder 7	"Death of Aesop," 2/13/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script
	Folder 8	Ralph J. Bunche, 2/20/49, Dest. Freedom
		"Peace Mediator," The Story of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
	Folder 9	Paul Williams, 2/27/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The House that Paul Built," The Story of Paul Williams
	Folder 10	"Life of Canada Lee," 3/6/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Do Something - Be Somebody," The Life of Canada Lee
	Folder 11	Booker T. Washington, 3/13/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Up from Slavery," The Story of Booker T. Washington
	Folder 12	Richard Wright, 3/20/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Black Boy," The Autobiography of Richard Wright
	Folder 13	Charles R. Drew, 3/27/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Transfusion," The Story of Dr. Charles R. Drew
	Folder 14	Countee Cullen, 4/3/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Pagan Poet," The Story of Countee Cullen
	Folder 15	Ida B. Wells, 4/10/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Woman with a Mission," The Story of Ida B. Wells
	Folder 16	Paul Laurence Dunbar, 4/17/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Before I Sleep," The Story of Paul Lawrence Dunbar
	Folder 17	"Apostle of Freedom -- Richard Allen," 4/24/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for program on Richard Allen
	Folder 18	Josh White, 5/1/49, Dest. Freedom
		"Help the Blind," The Story of Josh White
	Folder 19	Satchel Paige, 5/15/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Ballad of Satchel Paige"
	Folder 20	Benjamin Banneker, 5/22/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Secretary of Peace," The Story of Benjamin Banneker
	Folder 21	Henry Armstrong, 5/29/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Saga of Melody Jackson," The Story of Henry Armstrong
	Folder 22	Rev. Archibald Carey, 6/5/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Anatomy of an Ordinance," The Story of Reverend Archibald Carey
	Folder 23	Lena Horne, 6/12/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Negro Cinderella," The Story of Lena Horne
	Folder 24	Roscoe Dunjee, 6/19/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Ghost Editor," The Story of Roscoe Dunjee
	Folder 25	"Harriet's Children," 1st anniversary program, 6/26/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Story of the Negro in American History"
	Folder 26	Dorothy Maynor, 7/3/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Norfolk Miracle," The Story of Dorothy Maynor
	Folder 27	"Tales of Stackalee," 7/17/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Story of the Negro Paul Bunyan"
	Folder 28	"The John Henry Story," 7/24/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Legend of the Famous Steel Driver"
	Folder 29	Louis Armstrong, 7/31/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Story of Louis Armstrong, King of the Trumpeters"

Box 3	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Mary Church Terrell, 8/7/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Long Road: The Story of Mary Church Terrell"
	Folder 2	Henri Christophe, Part I, 8/14/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Black Hamlet," The Story of Henri Christophe, Part I
	Folder 3	Henri Christophe, Part 2, 8/21/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Black Hamlet," The Story of Henri Christophe, Part II
	Folder 4	"Segregation - Incorporated," 8/28/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Segregation-Incorporated"
	Folder 5	Blanche K. Bruce, 9/4/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Saga of Blanche K. Bruce," United States Senator from Mississippi
	Folder 6	761st Tank Batallion, 9/11/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Tiger Hunt," The Story of the 761st Tank Batallion
	Folder 7	Gwendolyn Brooks, 9/18/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Poet in Bronzeville," The Story of Gwendolyn Brooks
	Folder 8	Prejudice Series, Part I, 9/25/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "A Garage in Gainesville," # 1 in a series of two on prejudice
	Folder 9	Prejudice Series, 10/2/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Execution Awaited," Number Two in a Series of Two on Prejudice
	Folder 10	Adam Clayton Powell [Sr. + Jr.], 10/9/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Father to Son," The Story of A. Clayton Powell, Senior & Junior
	Folder 11	Albert Ammons, 10/16/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Of Blood and the Boogie," The Story of Albert Ammons
	Folder 12	Jane Edna Hunter, 10/23/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Diary of a Nurse," The Story of Jane Edna Hunter
	Folder 13	Hugh Mulzac, 10/30/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Keeper of the Dream," The Story of Captain Hugh Mulzac
	Folder 14	Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, 11/6/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Man Who Owned Chicago," The Story of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable
	Folder 15	Dean Dixon, 11/13/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Blind Alley Symphony," The Story of Dean Dixon
	Folder 16	Kenneth R. Williams, 11/20/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Tale of the Tobacco Auctioneer," The Story of the Election of the Reverend Kenneth R. Williams to the City Council of Winston-Salem, North Carolina
	Folder 17	Judge Joseph Homer Rainey, 12/4/49, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Joe Rainey vs. the Status Quo," The Story of Judge Joseph Homer Rainey
	Folder 18	Urban League, 1/15/50, Dest. Freedom
		"The Birth of a League," The Story of the Urban League
	Folder 19	William Henry Huff, 1/22/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Lawyer of Liberty," The Story of William Henry Huff
	Folder 20	Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, 1/29/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Portrait of Bill Robinson," The Story of Bojangles Robinson
	Folder 21	"Housing: Chicago," 2/5/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Housing: Chicago," including interview with Dr. Frank S. Horne, Assistant to Fed. Housing Adm.
	Folder 22	Carter G. Woodson, 2/12/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Recorder of History," The Story of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Founder of "Negro History Week"
	Folder 24	Brotherhood Week, 2/19/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Brotherhood Begins at Home," celebrating the start of Brotherhood Week
	Folder 25	Todd Duncan, 2/26/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Umfundisi of Ndotsheni," The Story of Todd Duncan
	Folder 26	E. Franklin Frazier, 3/5/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Atlanta Thesis," The Story of E. Franklin Frazier
	Folder 27	"Premonition of a Panther -- Sugar Ray Robinson," 3/12/50
		Script for "Premonition of a Panther," The Story of Sugar Ray Robinson
	Folder 28	Lonnie Johnson, 3/19/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Making of a Balladier," The Story of the Guitarist-Singer Lonnie Johnson
	Folder 29	William Lloyd Garrison, 3/26/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Liberators," Part I, The Story of Abolitionist Lloyd Garrison

Box 4	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Wendell Philipps, 4/2/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Liberators," Part II, The Story of Abolitionist Wendell Philipps
	Folder 2	Buddy Young, 4/9/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Buddy Young Story"
	Folder 3	Kinzie Bleuitt, 4/16/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Fifth District Story"
	Folder 4	Katherine Dunham, 4/23/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Katherine Dunham Story"
	Folder 5	Jane Bolin, 5/7/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Judge Jane Bolin Story"
	Folder 6	"Story of Spirituals," 5/14/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Story of Spirituals"
	Folder 7	John Hope, 5/21/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The John Hope Story"
	Folder 8	Isaac Murphy, 6/4/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Isaac Murphy Story"
	Folder 9	"Fats" Waller, 6/11/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Fats Waller Story"
	Folder 10	Richard Westbrooks, 6/18/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Case of the Congressman's Train Ride"
	Folder 11	Ruth Blue Turnquist, 6/25/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "The Angel of Federal Street . . . ."
	Folder 12	Nat King Cole, 7/2/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Kansas City Phone Call"
	Folder 13	William Nickerson, Jr., 7/9/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Mr. Jerico Adjusts a Claim"
	Folder 14	Charlotte Hawkins, 7/16/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Test by Fire"
	Folder 15	Pruth McFarlin, 7/23/50, Dest. Freedom
		Script for "Sing a Song for Children"
	Folder 16	Destination Freedom memorabilia
		Letter dated June 6, 1949 re: WMAQ NBC in Chicago carrying Destination Freedom
		Letter dated May 21, 1949 re: Destination Freedom cast appearing at Parkway Community House in Chicago
		Destination Freedom First Anniversary Program
		Clippings from Chicago Defender:"Children's Author on Coffee Hour," and "Coffee Cooler Adds Sociality to Air Shows” (April 16, 1949); "Dramatize Life of Ida B. Wells," and “Janice Kingslow, Wezlynn Tildon, Louise Pruitt, Dorothy Torkel, Guest of Honor,” re: cast of Destination Freedom celebrating the first anniversary of show [n.d.]
		Announcement card for Destination Freedom
		WMAQ matchbook

Box 5	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Great Artists Series, WGN radio, 12/18/40
		Script on the life and work of Auguste Rodin by Frederick Lawton
	Folder 2	Great Artists Series, WGN Radio, 12/18/40 - 1/6/42
		Script for "The Black Chip"
	Folder 3	Great Artists Series, WGN Radio, 2/11/41
		Script for "Goya: The Disasters of War"
	Folder 4	Great Artists Series, WGN Radio, 11/4/41
		Script for "Jose C. Orozco"
	Folder 5	Great Artists Series, WGN Radio, 1/6/42
		Script for "Matisse in Morocco"
	Folder 6	Art Institute of Chicago scripts, WMAQ, 12/5/42 - 4/10/43
		3 scripts from series, "Art for Our Sake"
	Folder 7	Art Institute of Chicago scripts, WMAQ, 1/16/43 - 4/10/43
		3 scripts from series, "Art for Our Sake"
	Folder 8	"Legends of Illinois," WAAF, 6/23/40
		Script for "Mormon Miracle," part of "Legends of Illinois" series
	Folder 9	Chicago Defender, 4/8/44
		Clipping, "Crump Thinks Negroes Given Fair Treatment"
	Folder 10	Chicago Defender, 7/22/44
		Clipping: "Biggest Text Book Buyer Never Got to College," by Richard Durham
	Folder 11	Chicago Defender, 8/5/44
		Clipping: "Jailer Flogs East St. Louis Bellboy, Claims He's Not Really 'Brutal Type'" by Richard Durham
	Folder 12	Chicago Defender, 8/19/44, [n.d.]
		Two clippings: "Texas Revolution of Lily-Whites is Short-Lived" (8/19/44), and "FDR Favors Ban on Army Jim Crow - Dawson" [n.d.]
	Folder 13	Chicago Defender, 8/22/44
		Clipping: "Dewey Home Town Lily White -- Mother Anti-Semitic," by Richard Durham
	Folder 14	Chicago Defender, 8/26/44
		Clipping: "Barbados Natives Find U.S. Strange Indeed," by Richard Durham
	Folder 15	Chicago Defender, 10/7/44
		Clipping: "It’s True What They Say About Peoria: Kluxer's Kin Defies Jim Crow, Sets Town on Ear," by Richard Durham
	Folder 16	Chicago Defender, 10/14/44
		Clipping: "Toussaint Author Favors Race Inter-Marriage," by Richard Durham
	Folder 17	Chicago Defender, 10/21/44
		Clipping: "Dunbar Outgrows New Building in Two Years," by Richard Durham, in the Chicago Defender
	Folder 18	Chicago Defender, 1/8/45
		Clipping: "Europe's Skies Prove Jim Crow's Graveyard," by Richard Durham
	Folder 19	Chicago Defender, 2/3/45
		Clipping: "War or No War, East . . . Keeps its No-Negro. . . ," by Richard Durham
	Folder 20	Chicago Defender, 2/24/45
		Clipping: "Millionaire Plots Tighter Noose on 'Black Ghetto,'" by Richard Durham
	Folder 21	Chicago Defender, 4/14/45
		Clipping: Four Seabees Flogged; Navy Outs Commander
	Folder 22	Chicago Defender, 5/5/1945
		Clipping: "Delegates Juggle Colonial Question; White, DuBois Ask Equality of Races," by Richard Durham
	Folder 23	Chicago Defender, 5/12/45
		Clipping: "Soviet Demand Wins Okay for Amendments"
	Folder 24	Chicago Defender, 5/26/45
		Clipping: "Full Independence Opposed by Parley"
	Folder 25	Chicago Defender, 6/2/45
		Clipping: "White Writers Duck Negro Issue -- But Lahey Loves It"
	Folder 26	Chicago Defender, 10/6/45
		Clipping: "Gary Strikers Like their Equality White," by Richard Durham
	Folder 27	Chicago Defender, 11/10/45
		Clippings: "Talk, Songs Win Applause But Walkout Still on," by Richard Durham
	Folder 28	Chicago Defender, 1/9/46
		Clipping: "First Century's The Hardest: Negro Needs Atom Bomb More Than Russians, Says Ex-Slave"
	Folder 29	Chicago Defender, n.d.
		Clipping: "Dixie Comes to Chicago: 'Unholy 3' Fight Wacs in 'Black Ghetto' Plot," by Richard Durham
	Folder 30	Chicago Defender, n.d.
		Clipping: "Chinese Leader Invites Negroes to China, Hits American Jim Crow," by Richard Durham
	Folder 31	Source unknown, n.d.
		Clipping: "Truman's Stand on Jim Crow Told Defender Scribe"
	Folder 32	"Action against Jim Crow," UPWA Anti-Discrimination Dept, [1952?]
		Booklet

Box 6	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Research -- American History
		Reports on Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre
	Folder 2	Published and Unpublished Essays
		"Sounds at Night," published in Pittsburgh Courier (6/1/38)
		Review of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," by Dale Carnegie, published in Northwestern Review, (9/1/38)
		"Churches and Poverty"
		"Lincoln Steffens' View of Education"
		"Free Speech and Propaganda"
		"Prejudice and People"
	Folder 3	E. Dickerson speech for ASP Negro Rights Forum, 1940s
		Notes on reaction to A. Philip Randolph and Earl Dickerson's speeches
		Dickerson speech for ASP Negro Rights Forum
	Folder 4	Analysis of "DF" by Hugh Cordier
		"A History and Analysis of Destination Freedom" by Hugh Cordier for a seminar, "Problems in Radio," at Northwestern in 1949
	Folder 5	Correspondence (1)
		Various correspondence including: letter and article re: John Dunning, authority on old-time radio, May 17, 1982; Durham was interviewed on his show
		Invitation to speak to the National Association of Media Women (September 18, 1969)
		Letter from Muhammad Ali re: producing a video program on Ali's career (March 10, 1982)
		Letter from Alderman Ralph Metcalfe re: crime in black community (Sept 2, 1970)
		Letter to Mrs. Roscoe C. Beach supporting her petition to demand the removal of J. Edgar Hoover (August 13, 1970)
		Letter from the Chicago Committee of Black Churchmen re: arranging a meeting with Elijah Muhammad (Sept 11, 1970)
		Letter from Jacob Lawrence re: biographical information (May 12, 1949)
		Letter from Robert Waters at Profile Public Relations re: marketing Destination Freedom and Democracy U.S.A. programs to companies that want to reach the Negro market (Feb 22, 1967)
		Copies of letters from Mamie Till Bradley to Office of the Secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of Defense and the Director of the FBI re: obtaining a copy of all documents re: Emmett Till's father, Louis Till (March 29, 1982); Louis Till had been executed on charges of rape
		Letter from Elijah Muhammad re: Nation of Islam's paper
		Letter to Rick Cluchey requesting copy of a script of "The Cage," a prison drama (Oct 2, 1969)
		Letter to Robert Hunt, assistant circulation director of the Chicago Tribune, re: being called "boy" and "Rich" by a Tribune salesman (April 14, 1970)
		Letter to Luther James re: possible submissions to "On Being Black" (Dec 28, 1969)
	Folder 6	Correspondence
		Letter from G. Ashanti Witherspoon dated May 24, 1981 re: personal profile and an appeal for his sentence to be reduced by the Louisiana Board of Pardons
		Letter from ? Dated Jan 18, 1963 re: script, outline and copy of Stuart Chase's Story of Toad Lane
		Letter from Izzy dated April 25, 1944 to Pfc. Hayward Kirkpatrick re: Boss Crump
		Letter to Caldwell (undated) from ? re: C.G.'s condition
		Letter to Earl (undated) from Iz (?) re: a Duke Ellington concert
		Letter to Clotilde (undated) re: the writing process
		Letter to Andrew (undated) re: the army and the treatment of colored soldiers
		Letter to Andrew (undated) re: organizing and the race problem
		Letter to Hay dated May 25, 1944 re: Uncle Toms in Washington, D.C.
		Letter to Izzy from Paschal (Sept 8, 1943) re: request for Daily News Almanac
		Letter to RD from Paschal (Sept 29, 1943) re: soldiers at a camp in Alabama
		Letter from Lloyd Daly (Feb 8, 1961) re: chapter on Aesop
		Letter to the Editor of The Chicago Sun (June 6, 1943) re: importance of teaching children that no race is inherently superior in the postwar period
		Letter to Bill (undated) re: white supremacy
		Letter to RD from Hank August (?) (May 20, 1982) re: synopsis of autobiographical work
		Letter to RD from G. Ashanti Witherspoon (Sept 8, 1980) re: desire to be a writer
		Letter to Witherspoon from RD (undated) re: Witherspoon's letter and publication
	Folder 7	Corresp. - 1948
		Letter to Homer Heck, dated June 27, 1948 re: Negro characterizations; letter from Charles Chignbard (?) of NBC praising Durham's writing
	Folder 8	John Hay Whitney Foundation, 1951 Corresp.
		Various correspondence between RD and Robert Weaver (and Weaver's secretary, Georgine Lovesky) (April 25, Sept 21, Aug 28, April 12, March 23, Feb 13, 1951; June 20, 1950) to RD from Robert Weaver (April 25, 1951) re: Opportunity Fellowship; essay on RD's credentials;
	Folder 9	News Clippings 1950 – 81
		Clippings including: "Soul Soap Opera" on Durham's Bird of the Iron Feather, "Birth of the Bird: New soap opera 'will be blacker and more soulful than anything else of TV,'" "Demise of TV 'Soul Series' is Explained"
		Clippings including: newspaper poetry clippings, photograph of Mrs. Chanie Durham, Durham's mother, viewing a photography display featuring Durham's work, awards won by Durham and "Destination Freedom," an article by Durham including "Negro Needs Atom: First Century the Hardest, Ex-Slave Finds."
	Folder 10	"Notes on the Union: Conflicts, Characters . . . "
		Script for "The Unions: The Hot and the Cold," and series of notes including: "Of Travis Sange," "The Union Inner Group," "The Poker Ritual," "The Chief," "Issues and Contradictions in Fight." Also includes a memo to all Swift Chain Locals from Swift Local #28, UPWA-AFL-CIO re: the nomination of Sidney Johnson for vice president of UPWA-AFL-CIO to replace Russell Lasley
	Folder 11	"Notes on Characters"
		Various notes on characters and scripts
	Folder 12	"Poetry by Richard"
		Various poems by Durham; copy of Opportunity magazine (Sept 1939) that includes poem by Isadore (Richard) Durham; correspondence from New Masses dated April 18, 1938 re: acceptance of Durham's poem, "Hell's Kitchen," booklet labeled Verne Durham with clippings in German and note from Langston Hughes about how he would like the poems in English as he can not read German

Box 7	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	"Democracy, USA" script, 8/31/46
		The story of Harry B. Deas, the only Negro police captain in Chicago
	Folder 2	"Democracy, USA" script, 9/29/1946
		The story of Walter White, author, columnist and executive secretary of the NAACP
	Folder 3	"Democracy, USA" script, 10/13/1946
		"Dr. Dailey and the Living Human Heart"
	Folder 4	"Democracy, USA" script, 12/1/46
		"Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins – Master Mathematician"
	Folder 5	"Democracy, USA" script, 12/22/46
		"Colonel B.O. Davis, Commander of the 332nd Fighter Squadron"
	Folder 6	"Democracy, USA" script, 1/12/47
		"Albert W. Williams -- President of the Unity Mutual Insurance Company"
	Folder 7	"Democracy, USA" script, 2/9/47
		Dr. Charles Wesley, president of Wilberforce University
	Folder 8	"Democracy, USA" script, 3/30/47
		The story of Rabbi Jacob Weinstein of the K.A.M. Temple
	Folder 9	"Democracy, USA" script, 8/17/47
		The story of artist Charles Dawson
	Folder 10	"Democracy, USA" script, 8/31/47
		The story of Melvin Walker, Olympic athlete and international high jump champion
	Folder 11	"Democracy, USA" script, 11/16/47
		The story of Charles Drew, head of Howard University School of Surgery and former director of the American Red Cross' first blood bank
	Folder 12	"Democracy, USA" script, 2/15/48
		The story of Indiana's Albert Merrit
	Folder 13	"Democracy, USA" Biography sketches
		Biographical material about subjects of "Democracy, USA"
	Folder 14	"Democracy, USA" Mayor Kelly script drafts
	Folder 15	Bird of the Iron Feather - Characters list
		List and description of characters
	Folder 16	Bird of the Iron Feather -- Storyline
		Description of the storyline of Bird of the Iron Feather
	Folder 17	Bird of the Iron Feather, chap. 1
		Chapter 1: "Prescription for a Pallbearer"
	Folder 18	Bird of the Iron Feather
		Chapter VI: "Speaking of Dreams"
	Folder 19	Bird of the Iron Feather
		Chapter IX: "The Hard Way to Play the Blues"
	Folder 20	Bird of the Iron Feather
		Chapter VIII: "Theme for Unfinished Faces"
	Folder 21	Bird of the Iron Feather
		"Of Music and My Father," Part I, "One Man's Hands, Another Man's Soul"
	Folder 22	Bird of the Iron Feather
		"Piano Lesson"
	Folder 23	Bird of the Iron Feather ("Sermon")
		"The Sermon"
	Folder 24	Bird of the Iron Feather
		Excerpts from script

Box 8	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Script draft fragments
	Folder 2	Durham - Biog. Sketch and Works, written by Clarice Durham (1999)
	No folders	4 black leather notebooks
		"Transitions," various notes and script drafts, descriptions of people, conversations, letters of Lincoln Steffens, notes on psychology

Box 9	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Durham vs. NBC (1) (1946 - 1956)
		Contract for Radio Show "Democracy USA" between the Chicago Defender and Durham; correspondence, memoranda, legal documents re: lawsuit between Durham and NBC; newspaper clippings re: "Here Comes Tomorrow" cast
	Folder 2	Durham vs. NBC (2) (1948 - 1957)
		Correspondence between William Rossmoore (Durham's lawyer) and Durham re: Durham's lawsuit against NBC; correspondence between Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company of Chicago and Durham re: sponsorship of "Destination Freedom;" exhibits from lawsuit (newspaper clippings and Broadcasting magazine article about awards won by Destination Freedom; announcement for a community social after the broadcast of "Destination Freedom;" WMAQ announcement re: debut of Destination Freedom on WMAQ; newspaper clippings with program schedule for "Destination Freedom;" advertising for WMAQ and Destination Freedom
	Folder 3	Durham vs. NBC (3) (1943 - 1978)
		Press releases re: return of "Destination Freedom," Durham's lawsuit against NBC
		Copies of Destination Freedom scripts (Nathan Hale, three Latvians immigrating to America, "Weapons for Peace")
		Correspondence re: Destination Freedom from the New York Public Library (Sept 11, 1978)
		Copy of "Radio's Black Heritage" by J. Fred MacDonald; Freedom Foundation awards booklet; posters of WMAQ program schedules (including reprint of article, "Meet the Stars Who Bring You 'Destination Freedom'); legal materials re: lawsuit between Durham and NBC; Isadore Durham's certificate from the Summer Radio Institute; Richard Durham's certificate from the National Negro Museum and Historical Foundation; list of station awards
	Folder 4	Durham vs. NBC (4) (1947 - 1978)
		Clippings re: "Here Comes Tomorrow" and "Destination Freedom;" notecards re: Durham's programs, publications and awards; copy of article, "Radio's Black Heritage: Destination Freedom, 1948-1950," by Dr. J. Fred MacDonald, published in Phylon (March 1978); press release re: Durham's lawsuit against NBC
	Folder 5	Durham vs. NBC (1954 - 1955)
		Correspondence between William Rossmoore and Durham re: Durham's lawsuit against NBC and list of press releases about "Destination Freedom," handwritten note titled "Stuff for article on Destination," small notebooks with notes pertaining to Destination Freedom and lawsuit
	Folder 6	Durham v. NBC
		Destination Freedom scripts: Dorie Miller, Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens
	Folder 7	Durham v. NBC
		Overview of Destination Freedom including discussion of "why your company should sponsor 'Destination Freedom'"
	Folder 8	Durham v. NBC
		Description of "Destination Freedom," and scripts: Canada Lee and Dr. V. G. Dailey and Dr. Daniel Williams

Box 10	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	Birds of the Iron Feather, TV Scripts
		List of TV scripts in this series
	Folder 2	Untitled folder
		Script: "Jonah and the Whales"
	Folder 3	Untitled folder
		Script: "Prescription for Pallbearers"
	Folder 4	Untitled folder
		Script: "Clients for the Castrated Crocodile," Part I & II
	Folder 5	Untitled folder
		Script: "Cry of the Silent"
	Folder 6	Untitled folder
		Script: "Theme for the Unfinished Faces"
	Folder 7	Untitled folder
		Script: "Day of the Exterminators"
	Folder 8	Untitled folder
		Script: "Crossroads"
	Folder 9	Untitled folder
		Script: "The Last Payment"
		Script: "The Target"
	Folder 10	Untitled folder
		Script: "Tomorrow, in Name Only"
	Folder 11	Untitled folder
		Script: "Cry of the Silent"
	Folder 12	Untitled folder
		Script: "The Contract Prisoner"
	Folder 13	Untitled folder
		Script: "Rotten Apples"
	Folder 14	Untitled folder
		Script: "The Young Coffins"
	Folder 15	Untitled folder
		Script: "The Hospital"
		Excerpt from Chapter 21 Titled: Crime, The Original
	Folder 16	Untitled folder
		Script: "One of the Worst Days in My Life"

Box 11	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	"The Greatest," final typescript
		Passage to insert, drafts of title, copyright, dedication and table of contents pages
	Folder 2	Untitled folder
		Typescript of "Shorty is Waiting," pages 1 - 101
	Folder 3	Untitled folder
		Typescript continues, pages 102 - 199
	Folder 4	Untitled folder
		Typescript continues, pages 200 - 267B
	Folder 5	Untitled folder
		Revised sample pages of "Shorty is Waiting;" typescript continues, pages 3- 34; typescript of "Archie - Am I Too Old," various pages
	Folder 6	Untitled folder
		Typescript of "This Message is Not for the Coward," pages 368 - 511
	Folder 7	Untitled folder
		Typescript of "Preparations for the Second Coming," pages 513 - 653 and for "The Contract," pages 517 - 530

Box 12	Manuscripts
	Folder 1	"The Greatest," page proofs
		Page proofs: chronology, copyright, acknowledgement and table of content pages; pages 3 - 57
	Folder 2	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: "The First Coming," pages 1 - 23
	Folder 3	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: "The Prophecy of Sell-Out Moe," pages 58 - 83; "The Induction," pages 84 - 106; "God Bless the Child," pages 107 - 133; "Old Friends and Dinosaurs," pages 134 - 183; "Dinosaurs in a Park," pages 167 - 183
	Folder 4	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: "Dinosaurs in a Park," pages 184 - 190; "Resurrection," pages 191 - 196; "Gyms Before Judgment," pages 197 - 214; "The Second Coming," pages 215 - 239
	Folder 5	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: "For the Victims," pages 240 - 250; "The Dinosaurs Meet," pages 251 - 261; additional pages, 261a - 261p
	Folder 6	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: "The Contract," pages 262 - 269; "The Bossman Comes," pages 270 - 283; "Bomaye," pages 284 - 304; "About Richard Durham"
	Folder 7	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: table of contents, pages 17 - 181
	Folder 8	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: pages 182 - 303
	Folder 9	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: pages 304 - 405
	Folder 10	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: pages 268, 300, 413 - 414, dedication page, table of contents, pages 11 - 14, various pages
	Folder 11	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: various pages
	Folder 12	Untitled folder
		Page proofs: various pages

Series II: Photographs and Audio-Visual Materials, 1949, 1970, 1999, 2007
Box 13	Photographs
	Durham 001	Destination Freedom cast, 1949
	Durham 002	Destination Freedom, Community Program, 1949, [VGH on left]
	Durham 003	"Bird of the Iron Feather" interview, 1970
	Durham 004	"Bird of the Iron Feather" interview
	Durham 005	Louise Pruitt, actress, Destination Freedom, 1949
	Durham 006	Destination Freedom, 1949, Fred Pinkard
	Durham 007	Destination Freedom, "Community Coffee Sip," 1949
	Durham 008	Destination Freedom, 1949, Technician
	Durham 009	Oscar Brown, Jr., Destination Freedom, 1949
	Durham 010	Destination Freedom, 1949, Janice Kingslow
	Durham 011	Destination Freedom set, NBC Studio, 1949
	Durham 012	Richard Durham writing "Destination Freedom," 1949
	Durham 013	Destination Freedom, 1949, Technician
	Durham 014	Destination Freedom, 1949, "Community Coffee Sip"
	Durham 015	Destination Freedom publicity
	Durham 016	"Destination Freedom Coffee Cooler"
	Durham 017	Destination Freedom musician
	Durham 018	Destination Freedom, 1949, Richard Durham
	Durham 019	Janice Kingslow, Destination Freedom, 1949
	Durham 020	Destination Freedom, 1949, Homer Heck
	Durham 021	Louise Pruitt (?), Destination Freedom, 1949
	Durham 022	Destination Freedom actors
	Durham 023	Ida B. Wells-Barnett
	Durham 024	Ida B. Wells - Barnett
	Durham 025	Destination Freedom, Janice Kingslow behind the camera, 1949
	Durham 027	Harriet Tubman script, page 2
	Durham 028	Honorable withdrawal card, American Newspaper Guild

	Audio-Visual Materials
	VHS tape	"The Sound of Freedom," by Afaf Qayyum, 1999 Chicago Metro History Fair
	CD	Interview with Clarice Davis Durham and Charles Davis recorded by StoryCorps Griot in July 2007

Series III: Serials, 1960 - 1975
Box 14	Serials	Muhammad Speaks, Vol., No. 1
		Muhammad Speaks, April 18, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, April 11, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, April 4, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, January 31, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, January 24, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, January 17, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, February 14, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, January 10, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, January 3, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, February 21, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, June 27, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, June 20, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, June 6, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, July 4, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, June 11, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, July 18, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, August 1, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, August 8, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, August 15, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, September 19, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, September 5, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, May 23, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, May 16, 1975
		Muhammad Speaks, April 25, 1975

		Large copies of May 1960 issue; reprint of "Christianity is Not a Religion for You and Me"

Unboxed Materials -- Oversize
		Bound copies of Muhammad Speaks: Volume IV (September 1964 - September 1965), VI-A (February 1966 - March 1967), VI-B (March - April 1967)

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