you know. We hardly ever had to worry about a cleaner.



 (Ms. Daily): Could you describe the churches your family

attended?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Yeah, Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church, on Eighth

Street between Second and Third Avenue.

 (Ms. Daily): Could you describe where your family went for

entertainment such as theaters, bars, restaurants or sporting

events?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Well, my mom and her friend Mary Felton would

go to Mary Felton's husband's little hole in the wall that he had

down on Second Avenue but, but that was it. If I didn't go to the

movies, I didn't have any place to go or if I didn't go to

something at Booker T., my mother would go with me or something

like that, we didn't do a family thing because one thing my father

was on the road, he didn't get, get to stay at home more than two

or three days at a time, you know, so we didn't plan nothing.

 (Ms. Daily): When someone in your family got sick where did

they go to the doctor's office?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Well, when I first got to Miami, I ate some

 green mangoes and my mom had to call Dr. Kirshon, (laughter). Dr.

 Kirshon was my doctor for the whole time I was in high school, J.

 Lang Kirshon.

 (Ms. Daily): How long did you continue to patronize those

 businesses?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Umm, well when I came out of college they


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