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Clerk? I'd like air extra room tonight for my guest.

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

You can hear this line at 00:16:27 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You could spread dissatisfaction among natives. In fact, our government believes that's why you're here.

- Are the natives so easily dissatisfied?

- Natives are always dissatisfied.

- We'll admit you, but we suggest you stay away from the native quarters. You might be mistaken for one of them.

- He remembered studying the colonial government that kept eight million people landless, locked in special quarters, barred from the streets and schools, restless and rioting...

- And he sought them out and talked to their teachers and editors, and went with an editor to his hotel...

- Clerk? I'd like air extra room tonight for my guest.

- Is he a Negro?

- The same as I.

- I mean, a native?

- He is.

- The hotels here don't take in native Africans. You'll have to take your friend somewhere else.

- Yes, he remembered that the natives were unfree in their own land.

- He lived in the tribal camps and got to know chieftains, and learned that people everywhere were determined to have freedom and a control over their destinies.

- He saw diamond, copper, and coal mines where thousands of Africans worked for a dollar a month, taxed and landless...

[...]

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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