| New World A' Coming | | 1944-03-05 | The first show of the series. "Dramatizing the inner meaning of Negro life." Written by Roi Ottley and based on his book of the same name. Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Committee on Harlem. A portrait of equal opportunity for the Negro. The final 14:54 of the program only. |
| The Negro: Fascism and Democracy | | 1944-03-12 | Muriel Smith sings, "When The Lights Go On Again All Over The World." How the Negro feels about the war. |
| The Negro in Early America | | 1944-03-19 | The theme song is announced as written by Duke Ellington, the program has an in-studio audience. How Negroes helped win the Revolutionary War. 16:10 of a 25 minute program. The script was re-used on the program on April 1, 1945 (see cat. #53235). |
| The Negro in Entertainment | | 1944-03-26 | The so-called "easy" field for success. Music conducted on this program by Bill Wirges. |
| Ghettoes: the Black Belt; Their History | | 1944-04-02 | The problems of Negroes trying to move into better neighborhoods is dramatized. |
| The Negro and Health | | 1944-04-09 | null |
| The Story of Negro Humor | | 1944-04-16 | Adapted from Langston Hughes' story, "White Folks Do Some Funny Things." This program was produced again on this show on April 8, 1945 (see cat. #11800). |
| The Story Behind the Headline in the Negro Press | | 1944-04-23 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. How the Negro press reflects the mass mind of the Negro population. |
| The Story of the Negro Church in New York | | 1944-04-30 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. The program originations from the auditorium of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. The Duke Ellington theme is not used. |
| Arrangement in Black and White | | 1944-05-07 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. A satirical guide to what-not-to-do in race relations. |
| The Colored Orphan Asylum | | 1944-05-14 | Produced in co-operation with The Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. |
| The Story of James Pearson | | 1944-05-21 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee on Harlem. A good story about discrimination in the workplace. See cat. #53235 for a rebroadcast on the program on April 1, 1945. |
| The Story of Ted Morgan, a Negro Reporter | | 1944-05-28 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. A good drama about a northern Negro reporter, determined to report on a murder trial, where a Negro is accused of killing a white. The same script was used on the program one year later. |
| Life in the Ghetto | | 1944-06-04 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. A program in honor of Harlem Week in New York. Guest speaker: Dr. Algernon Black. Discriminatory acts against Negroes in Harlem are dramatized. |
| A Statement By the Negro Community on D-Day | | 1944-06-11 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. |
| The Mammy Legend | | 1944-06-18 | Produced in co-operation with the Citywide Citizens Committee On Harlem. See cat. #66370 for a similar script broadcast February 26, 1946 under the title, "The Lady Who Works In Your Home." |
| The Story of Negro Music | | 1944-06-25 | Produced in co-operation with The Citywide Citizen's Committee Of Harlem. The last show of the season. |
| The Vermont Experiment | | 1944-10-22 | Produced in co-operation with The Citywide Citizen's Committee Of Harlem. Seventy nine kids from Harlem spend the summer on the farms of Vermont. |
| Inside Harlem Hospitals | | 1944-11-12 | Produced in co-operation with The Citywide Citizen's Committee Of Harlem. A white woman must spend several weeks in a Harlem hospital after a traffic accident. |
| The Life and Music of W.C. Handy | | 1944-11-19 | Produced in co-operation with The Citywide Citizen's Committee Of Harlem. A well-done biography of the famous composer. The show runs long and is rushed off the air! |
| Parachutes for Democracy | | 1944-11-26 | Produced in co-operation with The Citywide Citizen's Committee Of Harlem. The story of the first Negro-owned and managed war plant. How Skippy Smith of San Diego, with the help of Eddie Anderson ("Rochester") started his factory. |
| The American Negro Theatre | | 1944-12-10 | The story of the first successful all-Negro repertory theatre group. |
| We Deliver the Goods | | 1944-12-17 | The story of the Negroes in the Merchant Marine. |
| New World A' Coming | | 1944-12-24 | A program of Christmas music. The first carol is, "The First Noel." |
| I Teach Negro Girls | | 1944-12-31 | The story of a white teacher in Harlem. |
| Hot Spots, U.S.A. | | 1945-01-07 | The story of labor tensions in the face of Negro migrations to the West. |
| The Freedom Road Part One | | 1945-01-14 | The story of one man's experience with the Reconstruction of South Carolina after the Civil War. |
| The Freedom Road Part Two | | 1945-01-21 | The Ku Klux Klan becomes a force in the South (conclusion). |
| Roll Call | | 1945-01-28 | A Negro and a white man fight the Germans together. |
| There Are Things to Do | | 1945-02-04 | A look at race relations "today." |
| They Knew Lincoln | | 1945-02-11 | A program in honor of "Race Relations Sunday." A well-written program about some of the Negroes who knew Mr. Lincoln. Good radio! |
| The Story of Blood Plasma | | 1945-02-18 | A "Brotherhood Week" program. The president of the National Conference Of Christians and Jews presents an award to station WMCA. Nathan Strauss, the owner of the station, accepts the award with thanks. The story of the Negro doctor in charge of the first Red Cross blood bank. |
| Furlough Home | | 1945-02-25 | A wartime look at the home front in New York City. |
| The Negro in Early America | | 1945-04-01 | How Negroes helped to win the Revolutionary war. A rebroadcast of the script of March 19, 1944 (see cat. #39445). |
| The Story of Negro Humor | | 1945-04-08 | Adapted from Langston Hughes' book, "White Folks Do Some Funny Things." This program was previously heard on "New World A' Coming" on April 16, 1944 (see cat. #42329). The script must have run very short. After the drama, a promotion for next week's program, an offer to obtain tickets to the show, two public service announcements (V-Mail and recruiting) and almost two minutes of music fill are heard before the show mercifully ends. |
| New World A' Coming | | 1945-04-15 | A special program in honor of the death of President Roosevelt. Canada Lee reads President Roosevelt's famous D-Day prayer. Representative Adam Clayton Powell delivers a eulogy in President Roosevelt's memory. |
| The Story of Negro Nurses | | 1945-04-22 | A well-written and performed story about a colored nurse who almost let discrimination in the service keep her from joining the army. |
| Report From the Front | | 1945-04-29 | A portrait of Negroes at war in Europe. |
| Blood Flows Red | | 1945-05-06 | null |
| The Meaning of V-E Day to Negroes | | 1945-05-20 | Oliver Harrington, a foreign correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier, interviews "average" New York Negroes. Canada White acts as the announcer, Portia White sings. |
| The Wind at My Back | | 1945-05-27 | The story of Sergeant William Makepeace Strawberry. A Negro American fights the Japs and fascism in the South Pacific. The last show of the season. |
| One World | | 1945-10-08 | An adaptation of the famous book by Wendell Willkie. A journey taken around the world. A well-done broadcast with a live studio audience. The first show of the season. |
| Lights Out | | 1946-02-12 | A southern bigot is wounded during the war and loses his sight. He finds how hard it is to see the color of a man's skin when you have no eyes. |
| A Job for Jane | | 1946-02-19 | A recently graduated architect is turned down for ajob...and blames organized labor the the problems in our country. |
| The Lady Who Works in Your Home | | 1946-02-26 | The legacy of the southern "Mammy" is today's domestic servant. See cat. #42357 for a similar script broadcast on the series June 18, 1944 under the title "The Mammy Legend." |
| Crime Wave | | 1946-03-05 | An interesting drama/documentary about the way "Negroes" are much more frequently mentioned in newspaper crime stories, with no race identification of white criminals. Well done! |
| The People Next Door | | 1946-03-12 | A young G. I. returns home and becomes interested in an Austrian girl next door. However, he finds that the neighborhood doesn't think much of "foreigners." A good story that shows "tolerance begins at home." |
| A Nation of Nations | | 1946-03-19 | An original radio play based on the book of the same name. A sound portrait of the contributions to our country made by the "small" Americans of different ethnic groups. |
| The Town Without Doctors | | 1946-03-26 | A fantasy set fourteen years in the future (1960). An epidemic starts and causes the death of two children because there are no doctors in town. Why aren't there any? It's because of discrimination against Negroes and Jews back in 1946. A well-produced drama with a live audience. |
| For Us the Living: the Story of Carl Scherz | | 1946-04-02 | The story of a German immigrant who spoke out against slavery before the Civil War, and who was a friend of Abraham Lincoln. |
| Trouble in the Galley | | 1946-04-09 | One colored cook aboard a Liberty Ship heading for England brings trouble out of the galley. A Negro-hating steward is the source of the hatred. You can't duck trouble by keeping your mouth shut. You have to take a stand! |
| Deep River | | 1946-04-16 | An exciting ride on the underground railroad. A southern couple comes to the aid of a runaway slave. |
| Citizen Morganthau | | 1946-04-23 | A biography of Henry Morgenthau Sr. (the father of the Secretary of the Treasury), on the occasion of his ninetieth birday. It's the story of a Jewish immigrant from Germany who became wealthy, ambassador to Turkey and much more. Henry Morgenthau Sr. speaking after the drama, makes a halting but moving speech in praise of the United States. Good radio! |
| Black Boy | | 1946-04-30 | A drama based on the autobiography of Richard Wright. "The ethics Of Living Jim Crow." A black man in the south wants only to earn a living...not an easy job! Interestingly, the part of Richard Wright is portrayed by a white Jew (Norman Rose). |
| The Seeds | | 1946-05-07 | An Italian immigrant and his son try to run a small farm in Connecticut, only to find his neighbor disliking all foreigners. Well written and performed, good radio! A citation awarded by Ohio State University is read. |
| Old Freedom | | 1946-05-21 | The story of an enslaved people who turned music into a weapon to help set them free. The stories behind the spirituals. A citation from Ohio State University is read. The last show of the season. |
| Widow's Meeting | | 1947-11-11 | A woman's sister marries a German and spends the next sixteen years in Europe. The sister changes as Hitler rises to power...and then comes the war! |
| Free and Equal | | 1947-11-18 | A program about a 1947 attack on the Jim Crow laws on segregatred seating on interstate busses. A mixed group of whites and blacks (including Bayard Rustin) test the Jim Crow laws. Excellent radio. |
| The Other Room | | 1947-12-02 | The story of a woman who discovered a new, fuller life for herself at a Negro college. A white southerner from Virginia finds herself teaching at an all-Negro college. |
| The Diploma | | 1947-12-09 | A drama about racial and religious quotas in colleges and universities. A poor Italian boy changes his name to get around the quota system. |
| Color Scheme | | 1947-12-16 | A factory supervisor hires the best man for the job...who happens to be a Negro. A well-done story about racial intolerance. |
| Acknowledged Spy | | 1953-01-27 | The story of William Nathan Otis, arrested in Czechoslovakia for spying because the Associated Press reporter insisted on printing the truth. The general manager of the Associated Press speaks after the dramatization. |
| The New Program | | | The story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe named David Friden. A drama of his search for acceptance in the United States and his confrontation with anti-Semitism. The next week's program is titled, "The Other Room." |
