Would you have time this year to make a study of George Washington's relation to the Negro people?

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8 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 00:26:38 in the radio play.

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- And on my way home, I stopped in England and met a man who'd already read the early pages of my life and said...

- Whenever you write your autobiography, call on me if you need a godfather for it.

- If you live the next twenty years of your life the way you've lived the last twenty, it will be a book all America should read.

- And I came home to Washington where I had decided to live.

- And again I was called to undertake a mission. The call came from the head of the Washington Education Association.

- Would you have time this year to make a study of George Washington's relation to the Negro people?

- My department wants to print a pamphlet for the coming Washington Bicentennial. If you have time...

- I found the time, and I began by boarding the bus in Washington to go out to the George Washington home, at Mount Vernon.

- But it seems I had forgot that here in our nation's capital I wasn't free.

- Fare-fare, please. Get back in the bus. Move back in the bus please.

- Hey! Hey woman. You hear me, woman? You deaf or something? If you're deaf, woman, you sure ain't blind. Can't you hear me?

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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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