Broadcast: October 9, 1949

Starring: Oscar Brown Jr., Dean Olmquist

Added: Jul 19 2005

In to 81 sessions of the United States congress which provide the legislative direction for the land we live in there have come some of America’s outstanding followers for our democratic heritage. They have come from every state in the Union and from many different circumstances, some by routes that were direct and unopposed; others by routes that were closed and took pioneering struggle to negotiate. The story of one congressman, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. who came by the latter route, Destination Freedom tells today in a chapter entitled Father To Son.