Wasting funds on a Negro student to get a doctorate in political science!

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:59 in the radio play.

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- I don't see why you're studying government. You'd make a good...

- Precinct captain, your honor. One of the best. My ward needs one.

- He remembered how he turned down the precinct captain's job...

- And didn't tell the mayor how the newspaper job had made him more certain that he had to learn why there was one rule for the majority and another for the minority.

- He knew he could make his politics a science even if the mayor didn't believe him...

- Or the Harvard professors who gathered after he had finished the course, to decide whether he should have funds to go further.

- Wasting funds on a Negro student to get a doctorate in political science!

- I recommend that this Ralph Johnson Bunche be dropped from consideration.

- Professor, please. This student finished highest in his class.

- I say simply on his record we've got to consider him for the fellowship.

- But a fellowship in a field where he'll get no employment'll only frustrate him.

- The city of Los Angeles sent him here to study...

- He studied. Now let's send him back to Los Angeles, not all over the world poking his head into this government and that government.

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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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