Maybe because my folks helped build this country and made it worth living in.
7 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 00:10:52 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- My folks say you're not going north. You're staying right here.
- I'll be here when you come back.
- Wouldn't it be easier for you up north?
- It's rough here for anybody believing' in the thirteenth, fourteenth-amendment, but I'm stain'.
- But why?
- Oh, I don't know Maybe because my people are here.
- Maybe because my folks helped build this country and made it worth living in.
- Anyway, I'm sticking south... Even if I'm lynched for it.
- Besides, I've opened a grocery store up on Market Street, did they tell you about that?
- I hear on Market Street they're driving out the Negro merchants.
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