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Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom
Univ of Illinois Press
August 2015
On Sale: August 20, 2015
Featuring: Richard Durham
344 pages
ISBN: 0252081390
EAN: 9780252081392
Kindle: B0145TAPHY
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Non-Fiction Biography
Posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame
in 2007, Richard Durham creatively chronicled and brought to
life the significant events of his times. Durham's trademark
narrative style engaged listeners with fascinating
characters, compelling details, and sharp images of pivotal
moments in American and African American history and
culture.
In Word Warrior , award-winning radio
producer Sonja D. Williams draws on archives and
hard-to-access family records, as well as interviews with
family and colleagues like Studs Terkel and Toni Morrison,
to illuminate Durham's astounding career. Durham paved the
way for black journalists as a dramatist and a star
investigative reporter and editor for the pioneering black
newspapers the Chicago Defender and Muhammed Speaks .
Talented and versatile, he also created the acclaimed radio
series Destination Freedom and Here Comes Tomorrow and
wrote for popular radio fare like The Lone Ranger .
Incredibly, his energies extended still further--to
community and labor organizing, advising Chicago mayoral
hopeful Harold Washington, and mentoring generations of
activists.
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