 I do not know when Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Redd Owens came to my town. It is possible that like my parents, they were born there. When I came to know him, Mr. Redd lived with his wife, two daughters, Hazel and Josephine, on Barnett Boulevard. Like the vast majority of people in my town, Mr. Redd had worked in the cotton mill for most of his life.