Deartis Flanigan-Marshall

Deartis M. Flanigan Marshall was a 73-year-old Black woman from Hot Springs, Arkansas, whose life story stretched from the city streets of St. Louis to the quiet neighborhoods of a retirement town in the Ouachita Mountains. She was born in 1941 in St. Louis, Missouri, one of the children of Deathers and Minnie Rae Flanigan, and grew up in a close-knit family that would later spread across several states but remain tied together by memory and shared history. As a young woman she completed her sch ...