The state law says it's illegal for whites and Negroes to eat together in the same restaurant. The last two who got brotherly got thirty days to boot.

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12 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - Peace Mediator classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:20:06 in the radio play.

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- Oh yes, yes... You'll be all right. But your... friend will have to go somewhere else.

- And in towns in Texas and Georgia, Indiana and Maine they filled in their report...

- And they listened in a cafe in Alabama when a frightened waiter explained why he couldn't serve them.

- I'm sorry, but you two can't sit together in the restaurant here. Please leave.

- What do you mean?

- The state law says it's illegal for whites and Negroes to eat together in the same restaurant. The last two who got brotherly got thirty days to boot.

- For white and colored citizens to eat together in this state's crime, it's just a natural crime.

- The two left the state where there were penalties against the practice of brotherhood...

- And when they had covered the country, Dr. Myrdal wrote... 'With the help of Ralph Bunche I've finished my study of American race relations.'

- I've called it 'An American Dilemma'... the dilemma is whether Americans are going toward democracy and freedom or backwards to colonial thinking!

- He remembered how he had been proud of the book...

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Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Quotes 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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