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...
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