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A Garage in Gainesville

Destination Freedom · September 25, 1949 · 29 min · 4,676 words

The transcript of “A Garage in Gainesville”, an episode of Destination Freedom first broadcast September 25, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Destination Freedom plays Destination Freedom free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Say Joe, huh? Oh Mr. Harris wanna cab I was just getting a seat Joe. I just wanted to see if you knew about it about what the legend oh Some guys kidding round getting sober the lynch and saw When oh and a few hours about nightfall I reckon gee you're gonna join the boys aren't you?

What I don't exactly know mr. Harris You see, says his second bed and I ought to stay home. Every true white man in Gainesville is going to be in on it. My sister, I mean, gets off and nervous when she's home alone.

I said that every real white man is going to come out. What's your color, kid? I'll be there, Mr. Harris. I'll be there. Destination Freedom Destination Freedom. Dramatization of the great democratic traditions of the Negro people is brought to you by Station WMAQ as a part of the pageant of history and of America's own destination freedom.

This week and the following one, Destination Freedom will bring you two special programs, bearing directly upon one of the most pressing problems in American society, race prejudice. In today's chapter entitled A Garage in Gamesville, Destination Freedom analyzes the forces of prejudice and mob violence in a small southern town.

A great historian once wrote, The Method of Force which hides itself in secrecy is a method as old as humanity. The kind of things that men are afraid or ashamed to do openly and by day they accomplish secretly a mask than at night.

They use fear to cast out fear. hesitate at no outrages of naming or murder. And those who want certain things done by brute force can often depend upon the mob, because before the wide eyes of the mob is the shape of fear.

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