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You're a woman. You're supposed to keep out of the way... your pa says.

9 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 00:04:07 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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...

- I'm a man. I'm supposed to fight for what's my own, your pa says.

- And just what am I supposed to be doing?

- You're a woman. You're supposed to keep out of the way... your pa says.

- It was true. My father had said this.

- And one evening when I came home, he took me over to our new house on the corner of forbidden Cottonwood Street.

- I stood with my mouth open.

- All right now, girl, stand aside. Least a woman can do is to keep out of the way of those who're busy. Let the moving men by.

- Wagner?

- Comin', Church, we're coming.

- This way.

[...]

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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