TELL THE STORY
 MARIAN SHANNON
 August 15, 1997

 (Ms. Yvonne Daily): This is Yvonne Daily and today's date is

August 15, 1997. I'm interviewing Mrs. Marian Shannon at her home

in 2191 Northwest Fifty-Eighth Street and this is Side #1 of the

tape. Mrs. Shannon, I'm going to be asking you some questions

regarding family life. Where were your parents born.

 (Mrs. Marian Shannon): My father was born in North Carolina

in a little town called Terry, I think and ah, my mom was born in

Pensacola, Florida.

 (Ms. Daily): Did you ever live in Overtown?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Well, Overtown, well we never knew anything

about Overtown, it was called Colored Town and ah we lived

Twentieth, Twenty-First Terrace and Sixth Court and that was a good

ways from the regular downtown section of Colored Town. We were

all affected by the border was Seventh Avenue and Twenty-Second

Street to First Avenue and South to Fifth Street, that was, that

was the border for Black, and ah my, my parents came here with the

Silver Meter because my father worked on the Seaboard and that was

the ah like 1928 or '29 when the Seaboard came into ah Miami and ah

I came in 1938. I was in high school then I came. I went to

Booker T. Washington High School and finished there, from there I

went to Hampton Institute.

 (Ms. Daily): What years did, did your parents live in

 Overtown?

 (Mrs. Shannon): They lived in Colored Town (laughter)


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