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.
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- 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 worked for women's organizations everywhere to implement the amendment...
- And when I had finished this mission, I was invited to another.
- There's another mission I wish you could join.
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