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AAHP 251 Lakay Banks African American History Project (AAHP) Interviewed by Ryan Morini and Keilani Jacquot on February 17, 2012 1 Hour and 2 Minutes | 30 Pages Joel Buchanan Archive of African American History: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ohfb Samuel Proctor Oral History Program College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Program Director: Dr. Paul Ortiz 241 Pugh Hall PO Box 115215 Gainesville, FL 32611 (352) 392-7168 https://oral.history.ufl.edu AAHP 251 LaKay Banks African American History Project (AAHP) Interviewed by Ryan Morini and Keilani Jacquot on February 17, 2012 1 hour and 2 minutes | 30 pages Abstract: In this interview, Mrs. LaKay Banks recounts her life growing up in Tallahassee and her experiences being married to the first and only Black doctor in Gainesville. She grew up in a middle class neighborhood with her father as an auto- mechanic teacher at FAMU and her mother as a teacher in multiple high schools. Growing up, she was a member of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, with Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele as the pastor. In terms of her education, Mrs. Banks attended FAMU High School and the University of Florida. Her husband was the only Black doctor in Gainesville for many years. Mrs. Banks worked with community and medical groups throughout her adult life, including the Alachua County Medical Alliance. Keywords: [African American History; Tallahassee; FAMU; Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele; North Florida Regional Hospital] For information on terms of use of this interview, please see the SPOHP Creative Commons license at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AfricanAmericanOralHistory. AAHP 251 Interviewee: LaKay Banks Interviewer: Ryan Morini and Keilani Jacquot Date: February 17, 2012 M: This is Ryan Morini, from the Sam Proctor Oral History Program. I am here with Mrs. LaKay Banks and Keilani Jacquot on—let’s see what is it—Friday, February 17th, 2012. [phone rings] Perfect timing. If we might begin with when and where you were born. B: I was born in Tallahassee, Florida December the 1st , the year 1937. M: Tallahassee. Were you born—where were you born, in a hospital? B: At the university. I wasn’t born in the University of Florida. At FAMU University. [laughter] My father taught at the university and my mother taught in a high school there, so we lived on the campus. We—I think we were renting a house from FAMU University. M: Okay. What did your father teach? B: He taught auto-mechanics. M: Auto-mechanics, okay. And then what was the name of the school that your mother taught in? B: Oh mother, in high school she taught to me because she taught for forty-five years, so it was a multiplicity of schools. M: Okay, wow that’s a long time, forty-five years. I mean, was there a lot of pressure towards education when you were growing up or what was the household like? B: In my house? M: Uh-huh. B: Well there were four children, three of them college graduates. Miss Marty’s child didn’t graduate. He got into a multiplicity of things out of high school. He had five AAHP 251; Banks; Page 2 cars when he when he graduated. I guess he thought money was easier, making it without going to college. But education was emphasized very much. M: What was your neighborhood like in Tallahassee. B: Very, very middle class. M: Middle class, okay. B: And everybody either taught or worked at the university. We had a few doctors in the neighborhood and a few people that worked in the school—in the high school system so it was really a very middle class neighborhood. M: Okay and it was that basically where your social activities were when you were growing up? B: No, my social activities were at mine high school, which was FAMU high school or at the University of Florida. Because I knew most of the university people; when I was in seventh or eighth grade I was participating in the dance recital. Whenever they needed a little girl—I would participate and there was something going on. So I was really a fortunate gal in that I knew the professors there and they could utilize me to do whatever they needed to do then. I had a lot of exposure to FAMU when I was in elementary school. M: What was the school like itself? What— B: Well it was a demonstration to FAMU Heights School. The same very much at P.K. Young—all of my children went to P.K. It was not—I forgot what I was gonna—it was a derivative of FAMU, it was just the baby child to FAMU. M: Fair enough, fair enough. Did you have a favorite subject in school when you were going up? AAHP 251; Banks; Page 3 B: Did I have a what? M: Favorite subject in school? B: Ah, no. [Laughter] M: Any favorite teachers or—? B: Not really, I liked all of them. I knew all of them and I liked all of them. So far as having one that was very outstanding I can’t recall. M: I see. I guess it might be different if the high schools was sort of connected to university but here in Gainesville, people describe the community relationship to Lincoln High as kind of a center for community activities that what the school was like in your neighborhood or was it kind of a different situation or—? B: My school, as I said, being a derivative of the University of Florida, I’m sorry FAMU, boy my brother would kill me. Everything that was handed down from FAMU came from FAMU High School or FAMU demonstration school, we had both. The elementary school was used mostly for FAMU demonstration school and then the high school was FAMU High. So everything that was handed down, some good and some bad, some we did want and some we didn’t want came from FAMU. If I recall, my school was not, I don’t think it was a state school. I know it was different from the public school. We were not a public school, I can safely say that. M: Okay, okay. B: And we were the only school there with everything that [inaudible 6:29]. M: I see, I see. AAHP 251; Banks; Page 4 B: We didn’t have any bus transportation. Not any built cafeteria and whenever the public schools had [inaudible 6:39] cut off from the—so we had to fend for ourselves. M: I see. Cut off from access to the public— B: Well some monetary use that might come in or could [inaudible 6:58] getting a bus to go that had to be done. In other words, either through the university or through our parents. We just weren’t funded like the public schools because we’re not public schools. M: I see. I mean, did that have any kind of dividing effect? B: Oh no, no, no. It was just a way that things were written and done. M: Okay. Well did you interact much with the public school kids? B: Oh yes we did because we played them in football. Our school was a private school sort of because we only had a few hundred students. When I graduated I think there was only 37 and the other school had a 1,000. It was a small school and so I guess you can call it almost a private school. M: Sounds like, sounds like it. What kinds of subjects did they teach? Did they teach anything else? B: All of the basic stuff. That was what? That was 60 years ago [laughter] That’s a long time. M: I suppose so, I suppose so. Well and so what was your life like growing up a household? I mean, did you have a lot of chores growing up or was it basically focused on your homework? AAHP 251; Banks; Page 5 B: I didn’t have a lot of chores. Both of my parents worked and then my grandmother lived with us so she did all the cooking. So there was nothing left there to give me, just a matter of basics. Even through high school, being in various activities, it was very different, very much. M: I see—I guess I should ask—what were you parent’s names? B: Nevada—my mother was Nevada Beasley and my daddy was Sylvester Beasley Senior. M: I see, and your grandmother, who lived with you. Which side was she on? B: She was my mother’s mother. M: Okay and what was her name? B: Annie Davis. M: Okay, so where were your parents from originally? Like did they come from the Tallahassee area? B: My mother came from Georgia. My father came from Alabama. M: Okay and how— B: And the both came to FAMU, I think they met at FAMU. My father was the captain of the football team his four years of college. He must’ve been pretty good [laughter] and my mother was just a lovely lady. M: I see. So let’s see, did you go to church growing up? B: Oh yeah [laughter] yes. M: Cool. So what was your church? B: [Inaudible 10:16] M: What faith? What was the name? AAHP 251; Banks; Page 6 B: It was a [inaudible 10:22] in Tallahassee Devout Baptist Church, it was a Baptist church. Well known church, Revered C.K. Steel was my pastor if you look, he was probably too young to have heard of him. Very active in the Civil Rights movement, very active and he was well-known. M: Yeah, I have heard the name actually.
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