Bobbie and Diana

One Year

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Linda Taylor had a tendency to emerge from out of nowhere, upend everything in her path, then vanish without leaving a forwarding address. The final episode of The Queen focuses on two different stories about the lives Taylor changed. In one case, she helped a vulnerable family escape the degradations of the Jim Crow South. In the other, she kidnapped a child and may have been responsible for her own husband’s death. This podcast is based on Josh Levin’s new book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You escaped the war?
0:01.2	A hand the whip.
0:02.0	A Paramount Plus new original series,
0:04.6	Starring David Yelloo, Donald Sutherland, and Dennis Quaid.
0:08.5	I took an oath to take care of one.
0:10.5	Stream Lorman Bass Reeves on Paramount Plus, and joined by the 27th of November to get 50% off the first three months at just 349 per month.
0:19.0	I'm Bass Reeves and I'm the Lord this lamb.
0:22.0	After the first three months, auto renews at the then standard price of a monthly plan until
0:25.2	cancelled, currently 699 per month, new and eligible former subscribers only, 18 plus, Tees and C supply. Before we get to this week's episode, I wanted to let you know that this podcast mini-series is a companion to my new book, The Queen, The Forgotten Life behind an American Myth.
0:40.0	It's available wherever you buy books.
0:43.0	And now, on to the show.
0:45.0	Previously, on the Queen.
0:50.0	In 1964, Linda Taylor claimed her name was Constance Wakefield, and that she was the
0:56.0	heir to a gambling kingpin's vast fortune.
0:59.9	The ensuing court hearing proved that Taylor was lying.
1:03.4	But so were Taylor's white relatives,
1:05.5	who considered her parentage a secret that needed to be hidden.
1:09.2	I certainly knew or raised upon these members of the family talking about this horrible thing
1:16.9	that they considered as shame in the family that the county's real father
1:22.3	was black.
1:23.7	Taylor was effectively disowned because she was mixed race.
1:28.0	She'd spend the rest of her life latching on to other people's families.
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