Ghost Editor

Destination freedom. Destination freedom. Dramatization of the great democratic traditions of the Negro people is brought to you by Station WMAQ as a part of the Pageant of History and of America's own destination freedom. Among the founders of American newspapers, there have been men and women whose staunch defense of the principles of a free press have opened the way for greater democracy among

the people they have served. One such newspaper founder is Oklahoma's Roscoe Dungy, publisher and editor of The Black Dispatch. In a chapter entitled Ghost Editor, Destination Freedom tells the Dungy story. My name's Dungy Roscoe Dungy. I was born at Hoppe's Ferry where John Brown's mighty ideal exploded and shipped the world. I travel with my father an ex-slave and a Baptist missionary up and down the

saw this trail. And I got to know a lot about this land we live in. I hung around the offices of so many small town newspapers that editors called me in to do some of their writing for them. And by 1915 when I sailed in Oklahoma, I'd become a wandering ghostwriter working the weekdays with white newspapers.

Once you're right in the editorial here, doesn't you, commented the governor? Uh, say, what? Uh, commented him for his brilliant defense to the common people of Oklahoma. And for his brave stand in favor of justice without discrimination is to raise, green or color.

I know. Yeah, yeah, he took the words right out of my mouth. You sure know the policy of this newspaper, don't you? Yeah. You know, if you were white, I'd have you right here on my editorial staff, because you think you're right, so much like me.