We're here to petition you to investigate the discrimination practiced against the Negro citizens of the United States.

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

You can hear this line at 00:23:51 in the radio play.

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- My name is Walter White. I'm secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

- We understand that it's the aim of the United Nations to guarantee civil rights to all minorities in their respective countries.

- But yes, that is so.

- And we understand that it's the duty of each country to fulfill these sections of the charter.

- But of course.

- The United States itself had petitioned to protect the rights of minorities, say in Greece, Poland, Romania.

- What is your business here, monsieur?

- We're here to petition you to investigate the discrimination practiced against the Negro citizens of the United States.

- We're putting the case of fourteen million Negroes in the hands of the United Nations.

- And he remembered helping to sponsor the Freedom Train and sending it around the nation to encourage the ideals of peace and human rights at home.

- He remembered he had asked the mayor of a great southern city to let the train come in, but some had other words for the mayor.

(Mutters of anger and derision and defiance) Look here, mayor, they call you 'Fair 'n Square.' That's why we came to you before taking things into our own hands.

- Now wait, one at a time. One at a time.

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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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