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Marshall Dial Collection, The Stories They Tell: Lizzie Owens interview, part two, transcript, 1989

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Part of a collection of interviews between Marshall Dial and various residents of the Bootheel for Dial's radio show, ""Stories They Tell.""CA6033_CD10_Lizzie Owens, part two 1 Marshall Dial: —in Caruthersville, Missouri, again and last week we had Lizzie Owens here with us and she was a very exciting person to listen to. She told us a lot of stories beginning down in Sledge, Mississippi, where she grew up and she moved up to Parma, Missouri, from there she went back down in Arkansas to Turrell Twist. And when she left us last week, she was walking all night to get away from this plantation in Turrell Twist and when she left us last week, she was walking all night to get away from this plantation in Turrell Twist and she was on her way to Caruthersville and we’re going to take up our story this week in Caruthersville. Lizzie, how did you get up here? You rode in a truck somewhere. Lizzie Owens: We rode in one of those big old trucks that was empty, you know, big old empty truck and he stopped I guess to get oil or something or another and my husband was with him and he asked him, “Could we ride” as far as he go and he said he was going to St. Louis and he asked him, would he take us to Caruthersville and he brought us to Caruthersville and that was 1938, the 18 of April. Marshall Dial: How come you to...

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Keywords

  1. History, Local
  2. Missouri
  3. Missouri Bootheel
  4. Oral Histories
  5. Oral History
  6. Owens, Lizzie

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