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It's not the time for any child. I wanted none.

8 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 00:01:34 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- The woman was Mary Church Terrell. And in a chapter entitled 'The Long Road', Destination Freedom turns the pages of the Terrell story.

- I am the woman. Mary Church Terrell.

- The pages of my story began at the close of the Civil War.

- On the threshold of that new age I was born...born in Memphis, Tennessee, unheralded, unwanted.

- It's a girl! At a time like this the Almighty sends us a girl. It's neither the time nor the place to raise one.

- It's not the time for any child. I wanted none.

- A boy, he'd have a chance but in this section of the South where they're struggling' to throw us back into slavery... a girl!

- I wanted no children at all. None at all.

- So, I was 'welcomed.' And in wreckage of the Reconstruction I grew...

- And quietly wondered at the split personality of the social system that spawned me, that preached one way of living for white folks-and demanded a different way from black folks.

- And I asked my mother why I was unwelcome.

[...]

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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