Interview with Julia Ray Miller

Interview with Julia Ray Miller

African American families

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Miller, Julia Ray, 1907-

Segregation

Herbs -- Therapeutic use

Julia Ray Miller is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 26, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1907, Miller discusses growing up in Yancey County, North Carolina, attending school, and doing chores on the farm. She talks about church services and funerals, holidays, making her own soap, washing clothes, and making homemade remedies from herbs to cure illness. Miller worked at Isothermal Hotel in Rutherfordton and cooked for a doctor until she moved to Jackson County in 1939. She describes segregated conditions such as sitting at the back of the bus and eating in the back of a restaurant.

Miller, Julia Ray, 1907-

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;

1987-03-26

Smith, Edward Clark

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2019-01-22

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Rutherford County (N.C.)

Yancey County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:54:19 (sound recording)(duration)

22 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina