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You know, our folks used to be slaves, but all that stuffs ended. It's dead.

6 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 00:03:31 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- It's for 'white folks' only the sign says.

- I hear your old man's going to buy a house on it.

- But my mother says...

- She won't stop him... 'cause he's right.

- I'm gonna be like him one day. Ain't goin' to be no streets where I can't walk when I get bigger.

- You ever read the thirteenth, fourteenth amendments?

- Yes.

- You know, our folks used to be slaves, but all that stuffs ended. It's dead.

- Ain't no more slavery, so them 'white' signs don't mean a thing.

- The Constitution says everybody's free and equal, and I intend to stick by it like gospel.

- And Tom and I, children of newly freed slaves, would wonder at the world around us.

- And already there was a militant manner in his outlook that I longed to have.

- And when I asked him how he got that way, he said...

[...]

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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