South End Boston

“I was an artist-reporter, recording what I saw,” said Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007), whose captivating paintings depict daily life in the Black community of Boston’s South End and Roxbury neighborhoods during the 1930s and ’40s. 

Generations of Black Bostonians have walked beneath the Gothic arches and soaring spire of the historic Union United Methodist Church in the South End to pray, worship, sing, marry, mourn, be baptized and break bread in the name of Jesus Christ.