For Native Sons

U.S. Negroes got a big new nationwide network show this week. The U.S. Office of Education, which has arranged many a show designed to spread democratic enlightenment (among them: Let Freedom Ring, Answer Me This, The World is Yours), began to broadcast over NBC's Red network a new series called Freedom's People. Financed by grants from the Rosenwald Fund and the Southern Edu cation Foundation, its object is to improve the Negro's status by dwelling on his contribution to U.S. civilization.

On its first time out, Freedom's People undertook to reveal the origins of Negro spirituals, ballads and blues, demonstrate their influence on American music. Paced by towering Paul Robeson, who sang Many Thousands Gone and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, the cast included famed Ballad Singer Joshua White, Jazzman Noble Sissle & orchestra, Blues Composer W. C. Handy. The show did right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People hopes to feature such Negro eminents as Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver, Author Langston Hughes, Artist Aaron Douglas, Fighter Joe Louis many another.

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