Interview with Gloria Claire Chambers
IntervieweeInterview with
Gloria Claire Chambers
(Jamaican, born 1921)
Date2000 November 17
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration: 45 Minutes, 44 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of the CHS Exhibitions Department
Object number2013.26.6a-c
DescriptionAudio cassette tape of an interview with Gloria Claire Chambers, who was interviewed by Fiona Vernal on November 17, 2000.
Topics discussed include Chambers' childhood in Jamaica; coming to the United States via New York; meeting her future husband; why she likes Connecticut, but not New York; living on Ridgefield Street in Hartford; Mr. Chambers starting a business and sending their children to college; the West Indian Social Club; Catholicism; rearing their children with West Indian values and the marginality of race; and West Indian work ethic and attitudes about home ownership.
2013.26.6a-c consists of one side, the tape, and a J-card.
Topics discussed include Chambers' childhood in Jamaica; coming to the United States via New York; meeting her future husband; why she likes Connecticut, but not New York; living on Ridgefield Street in Hartford; Mr. Chambers starting a business and sending their children to college; the West Indian Social Club; Catholicism; rearing their children with West Indian values and the marginality of race; and West Indian work ethic and attitudes about home ownership.
2013.26.6a-c consists of one side, the tape, and a J-card.
Label TextListen to interview at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19641548
NotesSubject Note: In 1999, the West Indian Social Club of Hartford and the West Indian Foundation asked the Connecticut Historical Society to join them in documenting the lives of the West Indian immigrants who first came to the Hartford area in the 1940s to work on local tobacco farms.What began as a project designed to record the experiences of these early pioneers - mostly men from Jamaica - subsequently grew to include audio and videotaped interviews of men and women, elders and young people, longtime residents and more recent arrivals to the Greater Hartford area, both from Jamaica and the other English-speaking, independent countries in the Caribbean.
The exhibition explored a common thread that seems to link people’s individual stories: the challenge of putting down roots in a new place while maintaining ties with the people, history, and cultural heritage of their homelands in the West Indies.
The exhibition, "Finding a Place, Maintaining Ties: Greater Hartford’s West Indians," was on view at the Connecticut Historical Society from July 2, 2002 – August 31, 2003.
Status
Not on view
