Abstract
Yolanda Steward talks about growing up on E. 142nd Street between Bartlett Avenue and Glendale Avenue in the 1950s. She describes visiting stores on Kinsman Road and E. 131st Street such as a chicken market, a shoe store, and a movie theater. Steward describes her experiences at Moses Cleveland Elementary School, Alexander Hamilton Middle School, and John Adams High School. She discusses some experiences of segregation and discrimination: both within public spaces and within the public school system. She then describes changes in her family, working at the steel mill, and changes in the Union-Miles neighborhood. At the end of the interview, she emphasizes how much she loved growing up on E. 142nd Street and gives advice to young people.
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Interviewee
Steward-Barnes, Yolanda (interviewee)
Interviewer
Carubia, Ava (interviewer)
Project
Union-Miles
Date
1-14-2025
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
71 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Yolanda Steward-Barnes interview, 14 January 2025" (2025). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 483009.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1353
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