Abstract

In this 2025 interview, Joyce Fields-Ray discusses her life growing up in the Union-Miles neighborhood. She describes frequently-visited businesses, such as restaurants, ice cream parlors, and roller skating rinks. She recounts her garden plot at the Miles Elementary School garden, early experiences of racism, and other memories from along Miles Avenue. At the end of the interview, she summarizes what has changed and stayed the same throughout the neighborhood.

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Interviewee

Fields-Ray, Joyce (interviewee)

Interviewer

Carubia, Ava (interviewer)

Project

Union-Miles

Date

3-14-2025

Document Type

Oral History

Duration

54 minutes

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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