Keeper of the Dream

Destination Freedom. Destination Freedom. Dramatization of the great democratic tradition of the Negro people is brought to you by Station WMAQ as a part of the pattern of history and of America's own destination freedom. Of many outstanding ships that plowed the seas between Battlefront and Homefront during World War II, none had greater significance for the American dream of human brotherhood than

the Liberty Ship SS Booker T. Washington. And for the story of the captain of that ship, Destination Freedom presents its chapter, Keeper of the Dream, the story of Captain Hugh Mosek, skipper of the SS Booker T. Washington.

Now the bitter war has been ended, four years gone. But the warps round New York are still crowded with cargo, waiting to ship the carrier over the ocean, especially now when sunlight's ready to rise over the top of the skyscrapers.

The sleeping ship sort of open their eyes and stretch and groan and get ready. A coal ship calls over to a passenger liner, a Ford horn grunts way out in a bay, and there harbors awake, the way seamen like to see it.

Crowded, crammed with ships coming in and ships going out. With crewmen coming down the docks, laughing, groaning, awe-telling the modes and million entails about semen. And sometimes in the early mornings when they're hoisting their bags over their shoulders and looking out across the day for their ships, they see him on the dock.

They nod their heads and they talk of him, of this skipper without a ship who comes down to the docks at the daybreak and looks out at the sea. They talk of how he walked across the docks and up the stairs of the hiring halls of the maritime union. Walk slowly through the room full of sailors talking, smoking, lounging, waiting and listening to the voice