Oral history interview video with Christopher Hayes, Clare Hayes, and Helen Helman. circa 1995

Hayes, Christopher, 1932-2009 (Interviewee)

Hayes, Clare (Interviewee)
Helman, Helen, 1912-1997 (Interviewee)
United South End Settlements (Boston, Mass.) (Associated name)

[ca. 1995]

Moving image

Interviews

Video

reformatted digital

An interview with Christopher Hayes (1932-2009), Clare Hayes, and Helen Helman (1912-1997), who discuss their lives in the South End and the history of neighborhood. Clare is the wife of Christopher and daughter of Helen, who reminisces about growing up as Ukrainian-American in Boston in the 1910s and 1920s. Christopher-a milkman and community organizer of Irish-American descent-discusses the South End community and politics in Boston in the subsequent decades. The interviewees collectively recount family life, as well as urban and social changes in the neighborhood, especially around the Bradford Street area, the location of Helman family home.

Collection finding aid: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20297022

This oral history was collected and recorded as part of the South End Honor Roll Project-an effort led in 1995 by the United South End Settlements (USES) and funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council-to collect stories about the South End neighborhood of Boston from individuals with diverse backgrounds. Oral histories include interviewees who identify as Black, Puerto Rican, Dominican-, Irish-, Lebanese-, and Ukrainian-American. Memories and personal anecdotes mostly date from the Great Depression to World War II to post-war times. Largely, topics concern community organization, cultural traditions, social experiences, and changes in the urban fabric of the neighborhood over time. These group interviews were conducted in-person at the homes of some of the interviewees in 1995, and were led by Guadulesa Rivera, then Cultural Coordinator at USES.

United South End Settlements records (M126)
Boston Research Center. Harriet Tubman House Memory Project

South End (Boston, Mass.)
United South End Settlements (Boston, Mass.)
Hayes, Christopher, 1932-2009
Hayes, Clare

M126_B079_VHS003

Northeastern University Library
Archives and Special Collections (M126)

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