the school and he also attended umm Hampton Institute during the

summer and they told him about me and I, I was already ready to go

to New Orleans to take a job at Southern University and he called

the president and told him he wanted to keep me here and I was glad

cause I, I was really young, I didn't want to leave my ma

(laughter), so I, I got the job. He wanted someone to start a

newspapers, you know, and I had been the editor of the newspaper on

campus plus I had done some columns for the Miami Times when I was

high school, so I got the job.

 (Ms. Daily): How did you get to work?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Well, before I got an automobile, I walked to

Twentieth Street and Sixth Avenue (sneeze excuse me) and sometime

I would get a ride and sometime I wouldn't but I'd walk all the way

down Sixth Avenue til I got to Thirteenth Street and Booker T.

(laughter), walked.

 (Ms. Daily): Where did the other members of your family work?

 (Mrs. Shannon): I didn't have anybody else in my family here

but my mom and dad.

 (Ms. Daily): So you're an only child (laughter).

 (Mrs. Shannon): Oh, yes, my mom had regretted that a lot of

times (laughter).

 (Ms. Daily): Beginning in the late 1950's many immigrants

moved to Miami from the Caribbean including Cuba, Haiti and other

countries. Did those immigrants compete with Overtown residents

for jobs?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Not in the beginning ah because ah before


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