Wilfredo Rodriguez oral history interview

This is an oral history interview with Wilfredo Rodriguez, longtime resident of Ybor City. Rodriguez was born in Cuba and came to Tampa in 1902. His father, Francisco Rodriguez, was a lector (reader) known as El Mexicano in cigar factories in Cuba and Tampa. Rodriguez, who was himself a lector, describes their role in the factory, the process by which one became a lector, and the materials read