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And when they had covered the country, Dr. Myrdal wrote... 'With the help of Ralph Bunche I've finished my study of American race relations.'

10 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - Peace Mediator classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:20:26 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm sorry, but you two can't sit together in the restaurant here. Please leave.

- What do you mean?

- The state law says it's illegal for whites and Negroes to eat together in the same restaurant. The last two who got brotherly got thirty days to boot.

- For white and colored citizens to eat together in this state's crime, it's just a natural crime.

- The two left the state where there were penalties against the practice of brotherhood...

- And when they had covered the country, Dr. Myrdal wrote... 'With the help of Ralph Bunche I've finished my study of American race relations.'

- I've called it 'An American Dilemma'... the dilemma is whether Americans are going toward democracy and freedom or backwards to colonial thinking!

- He remembered how he had been proud of the book...

- And then had gone back again to learn more from the people of West and North Africa.

- But when the war came, he was called into the Office of Strategic Services, and he wondered why.

- You can stop wondering, doctor. We want you in the Strategic Services for a job that's highly confidential at the present time.

- Can you tell me what it is?

- We'll have to.

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes 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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