But before you were born, a reaction tore down the work of the Reconstruction: the free voting', the equal education...
12 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 00:08:53 in the radio play.
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- Now, now quiet, ma'am. He's hurt bad, but I think he'll pull through.
- He drove them off all right.
- Just step aside, and let us handle it. I think he'll pull through.
- And she stepped aside and took me with her and told me why she had not been anxious for a child.
- And I could see we were heading' towards a new kind of slavery.
- No mother wants to see her child suffer prejudice and bigotry. Now you see?
- I did see, and I looked closer at the life around me and tried to adjust myself for the task ahead.
- And finally, when father had recovered, he said...
- You won't have to adjust. You're not to live in it. I've decided to send you somewhere else.
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