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Hey! Hey woman. You hear me, woman? You deaf or something? If you're deaf, woman, you sure ain't blind. Can't you hear me?

11 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 00:27:15 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Would you have time this year to make a study of George Washington's relation to the Negro people?

- My department wants to print a pamphlet for the coming Washington Bicentennial. If you have time...

- I found the time, and I began by boarding the bus in Washington to go out to the George Washington home, at Mount Vernon.

- But it seems I had forgot that here in our nation's capital I wasn't free.

- Fare-fare, please. Get back in the bus. Move back in the bus please.

- Hey! Hey woman. You hear me, woman? You deaf or something? If you're deaf, woman, you sure ain't blind. Can't you hear me?

- What is it?

- You're sitting in the wrong seats. White folks in the front, colored in the rear.

- You been in Washington a long time?

- A very long time.

- Then act like it.

- Are you moving or are you giving me a little trouble?

- I'm too tired to move. I guess I'm going to give you trouble.

- All right then, woman. You asked for it. Hold that door there. Now come on! Out you go!

- I pulled myself up off the capital's streets and slowly towards the home of George Washington.

[...]

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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