And quietly wondered at the split personality of the social system that spawned me, that preached one way of living for white folks-and demanded a different way from black folks.

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14 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Long Road (The story of Mary Church Terrell) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:02:05 in the radio play.

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- It's a girl! At a time like this the Almighty sends us a girl. It's neither the time nor the place to raise one.

- It's not the time for any child. I wanted none.

- A boy, he'd have a chance but in this section of the South where they're struggling' to throw us back into slavery... a girl!

- I wanted no children at all. None at all.

- So, I was 'welcomed.' And in wreckage of the Reconstruction I grew...

- And quietly wondered at the split personality of the social system that spawned me, that preached one way of living for white folks-and demanded a different way from black folks.

- And I asked my mother why I was unwelcome.

- Must you keep asking me that?

- I'd like to know.

- You'll get to see for yourself soon enough. You'll know.

- How will I know?

- When you don't have to ask, you'll know.

- Now go on out to get your schooling. Your father and I have work to do.

- So I would go out to school and to play and to wander across the street where a boy I knew, Tom Moss, also wondered-and who would call to me...

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Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Quotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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