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I helped form a National Association of Colored Women when the crucial nineteenth amendment to grant suffrage to women was passed.

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 00:24:16 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- That's why I'm staying in the South and getting Negro and white women together to find their freedom together.

- In the right to vote and the right to work will freedom be found.

- For once a white woman bows down before white masculinism, she is ready for slavery!

- And I spoke that way whenever I traveled. And slowly they began to listen.

- And there were women's clubs formed of women in the South to promote their own welfare.

- I helped form a National Association of Colored Women when the crucial nineteenth amendment to grant suffrage to women was passed.

- I worked for women's organizations everywhere to implement the amendment...

- And to bring a new awareness of the struggles women were making to help construct a new society where race and sex discrimination would be outlawed.

- And when I had finished this mission, I was invited to another.

- I've called you here because we're proud of your work in women's suffrage and your work with the Washington Board of Education.

- There's another mission I wish you could join.

- What is it?

[...]

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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