Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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 educator, but he, that was all. And he had lost contact pretty much

 with the teachers and everything else.

M: Where was he from?

W: I don't know.

M: Like was he from the North or South?

W: I don't know. He was there when I came to Tappa. That's

 all I know. Fowlkes, F-o-w-l-k-e-s.

M: F-o-w-l-k-e-s?

W: Uh, huh.. Principal of when I came, before I went

 there.

M: Somebody mentioned a Fowlkes who / was principal of Ybor

 back in the ,'twenties.

W: I don't know him, he might have been the same one. I don't know.

M: Might be the #e person.

W: But this Fowlkes was principal at when I went there

 in 19--, well, he was principal the year before I went there

 as principal.

M: What happened? Was he moved or transferred or fired?

W: He retired as I recall. I just don't know.

M: So in other words there was a vacancy and they assigned you to

 it?

W: Yeah, yeah. And I put in, I put in two or three things over

 in because I had the same type children, more or

 less. But by '39 they were, seventy per cent of them were

 speaking some English, enough to get :along. But I put in