We Exist Series 4: Quotes
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Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee.
Interviewee: Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee (age 66; born 1937 in Newark, New Jersey; lived in Maine for 8 ½ years)
“I think my closing reflections would be that when I came to Lewiston I remember walking across the bridge that goes across the Androscoggin, the extension of Main Street, just sort of looking out, and there was a black man with a camera and I thought, good, there's a black person. So I went up to him and I introduced myself, told him I was new in the area and he tells me he was visiting. I don't think I saw another black person for at least a month, and I was going out to the supermarkets, et cetera. But within the, maybe three or four years after I moved here, or maybe less, I saw a marked increase in the presence of black people, and this is before the Somalians and the Togolese.”
Publication Date
6-4-2003
Publisher
USM African American Collection
City
Lewiston, Maine
Keywords
Leisure, African American History, Maine
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Popular Culture | American Studies | Cultural History | Genealogy | History | Labor History | Oral History | Other American Studies | Other History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Elgersman Lee, Maureen, "Ms. Joanna Boley-Lee on Leisure" (2003). We Exist Series 4: Quotes. 7.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/we4_leisurequotes/7
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