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

9 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 00:23:38 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- We don't want no equality with Negroes. That's all there is to it.

- My man says the Klan's the only thing's that's protectin' us white women from Negro men. He says that!

- Women! Since when have we needed cowards in bed sheets and masks and shotguns to safeguard our persons and our homes?

- The only protecting women need is protection by equality under the law. Equality of opportunities and the right to share the benefits of this land, alongside men.

- Equality to choose their associates without fear of intimidation from bigots and the hissing of cowards.

- 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.

[...]

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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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