- The country still
was very segregated.

- [Man] There were no African
Americans living there.

You know, they tried
to purchase 50 acres

and they had to send
Orpheus who looked white.

- To cut the deal
to sell the property

was probably a normal
thing for them to do.

But then they learned
that he's married

to Marian Anderson and
the deal now is off.

The sellers were saying

that if we sell you the property

then the property around that
would have no real value.

- [Man] They expanded the
purchase to a hundred acres.

They thought that
would scare them off.

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But they did, they did
buy the hundred acres

and they had a real farm there.

- [Marian] The horses
that we have here,

when they see you coming
they'll come up to the gate

and make a nice little
sound to let you know

that they're glad you're here.

- She had calves,
pigs, not, you know

those cute little pigs.
Hogs, those big, big hogs.

They had Kerry Blue Terriers,

beautiful, beautiful dogs.

Chickens, they
had some chickens.

So it was quite a place.

And I remember going
there when I was a kid

and just being totally
fascinated by all of that.

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