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Oral history interview of Evelyn Carey by Jim Witkin. The first page of this transcript consists of pulled interview quotes. Carey describes her family’s experience immigrating from Lithuanian to South Boston, including their living arrangements, professions, and education. Carey discusses South Boston’s Lithuanian community and how it influenced her early education, relationships, and religious experiences. She describes how the changes in the landscape and immigration demographics have impacted the neighborhood over time. Carey shares her reactions to Boston’s school desegregation and how she believed it has impacted the South Boston community. She describes the recent surge in community organizing, mentioning the group ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights). Carey also shares how she views her relationship with Boston’s Black community. Other topics mentioned include Knights of Columbus Dance, M Street Park, Tuckerman School, Andrew Square district, St, peters, Lithuanian Catholicism, Society of Mary, Lithuanian Club, Archbishop Cushing High school, Irish Immigration, the Second World War, Boston Latin School, railroad industry, nurse training, South Boston High school, old Street hill, Lithuania folk dancing, old Carney Hospital, Plastic Industry, Marion Manor nursing home, Dorchester, D Street project, Racial Segregation of U.S. Military, parochial school, Perry School, Boston School desegregation, Columbia Point, Benjamin Dean Hart School, Roxbury, school boycott, Notre Dame School, Italian Immigration, ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights) group, County Hospital, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.
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