[Ads-l] "I say...Lusitani-ay"

[Wilson Gray]

Interesting! And not only for the town's name. A family for one of whose
daughters I pined in my adolescence was from Lake Charles.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 4:37 PM Charles C Rice <charles.rice at louisiana.edu>
wrote:

> There is a small town of Iowa (Eye-way or Eye-uh-way) Louisiana, outside
> Lake Charles, that has a notable black Mardi Gras run.
>
> Clai Rice
>
> Wilson wrote:
> Amongst elderly colored people, such as the writer, the state of Iowa and
> its university is known as "Ioway."
> During Jim Crow, Southern states would pay to send black students to
> Northern state universities, rather than admit them to the local state
> universities. My other's sister nd several of my St. Louis friends. went to
> "Ioway."
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