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New World A Coming

Heard
1944–1945
Episodes
47

A radio show based on the 1943 book New World A-Coming: Inside Black America, which described life for African Americans in Harlem, New York City. In latter episodes it spread out to include other topics of race and culture.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. THE NEGRO FASCISM AND DEMOCRACY

    · 26 min

  2. THE NEGRO IN EARLY AMERICA

    · 17 min

  3. THE NEGRO IN ENTERTAINMENT

    · 26 min

  4. GHETTOES THE BLACK BELT THEIR HISTORY

    · 25 min

  5. THE NEGRO AND HEALTH

    · 24 min

  6. THE STORY OF NEGRO HUMOR

    · 25 min

  7. THE STORY BEHIND THE HEADLINE IN THE NEGRO PRESS

    · 27 min

  8. THE STORY BEHIND THE HEADLINE IN THE NEGRO PRESS(1)

    · No. 1 · 27 min

  9. THE STORY OF THE NEGRO CHURCH IN NEW YORK

    · 27 min

  10. ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND WHITE

    · 26 min

  11. THE STORY OF JAMES PEARSON

    · 25 min

  12. THE STORY OF TED MORGAN A NEGRO REPORTER

    · 25 min

  13. LIFE IN THE GHETTO

    · 22 min

  14. A STATEMENT BY THE NEGRO COMMUNITY ON D DAY

    · 26 min

  15. THE MAMMY LEGEND

    · 25 min

  16. THE STORY OF NEGRO MUSIC

    · 25 min

  17. THE VERMONT EXPERIMENT

    · 18 min

  18. MUSIC AT WAR

    · 26 min

  19. EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802

    · 26 min

  20. INSIDE HARLEM HOSPITALS

    · 25 min

  21. THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF W C HANDY

    · 25 min

  22. PARACHUTES FOR DEMOCRACY

    · 25 min

  23. HEROES OF THE SKY PARTIAL SHOW

    · 16 min

  24. THE AMERICAN NEGRO THEATRE

    · 25 min

  25. WE DELIVER THE GOODS

    · 25 min

  26. THE FIRST NOEL

    · 25 min

  27. I TEACH NEGRO GIRLS

    · 25 min

  28. HOT SPOTS U S A

    · 25 min

  29. THE FREEDOM ROAD

    · 25 min

  30. THE FREEDOM ROAD

    · 25 min

  31. ROLL CALL

    · 7:51

  32. THERE ARE THINGS TO DO

    · 17 min

  33. THEY KNEW LINCOLN

    · 25 min

  34. THE STORY OF BLOOD PLASMA

    · 25 min

  35. FURLOUGH HOME

    · 25 min

  36. NEGROES IN HOUSING

    · 24 min

  37. NEGROES AND HEALTH

    · 24 min

  38. NEGROES IN LABOR

    · 23 min

  39. THE NEGRO REPORTER

    · 24 min

  40. THE NEGRO IN EARLY AMERICA

    · 24 min

  41. WHITE FOLKS DO SOME FUNNY THINGS

    · 24 min

  42. MEMORIAL TO FDR

    · 30 min

  43. THE STORY OF NEGRO NURSES

    · 23 min

  44. REPORT FROM THE FRONT

    · 23 min

  45. BLOOD FLOWS RED

    · 14 min

  46. THE MEANING OF V E DAY TO NEGROES

    · 25 min

  47. THE WIND AT MY BACK

    · 24 min

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  1. New World A Coming

    Old Time Radio · Vincent Lushington "Roi" Ottley · 47 episodes here · archive.org

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