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She went right on with her grade. She didnt like M street because they didnt teach what she wanted. Armstrong was the first industrial school for the Negros. Bruce Evans, who is the grandfather of theer Evans, was the principal of the new industrial school. Mr. [[strikethrough]] bond [[strikethrough]] Vaughn was the architectural teacher. He built churches. Mr. Mattingly was an Ivy League graduate and taught mathematics. He was very good. He became principal of Armstrong after Bruce Evans left. Ms. Sarah finished the medical school at Howard and taught at Armstrong. Kathryn and I went to 17th and Church street on the northwest corner where the apartment house is now. You didn't find many Negroes owning their homes in Washington. Most were renters. We were deciding whether to live in Washington, New York, Chicago, or Newark. Papa was scouting around. He went to Atlantic City for a few months to work with Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald had a restauraunt and a bark [[strikethrough]] up [strikethrough]] there. Then, he worked with Ray, who was a valet for this rich steel magnet from Pittsburgh, named Schwarz. Schwarz had a home on Riverside Drive. Ray had invested his money in a bar that Papa ran for him in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Ray said that it was no place to bring up your daughters. The best place for you would be in Washington. That's another reason why we came here. About a year or two before we came to Washington, we started buying [[strikethrough]] this [[strikethrough]] house with my aunt and her husband, Joe