Add to ORKGJulia 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