Interview with Martha Hammond

Interview with Martha Hammond

African American families

African American schools

African Americans

Autobiography

Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs

Floods

Hammond, Martha, 1914-

Hammond, Martha, 1914- -- Childhood and youth

North Carolina, Western -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Schools

World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans

Martha Hammond is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 27, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Hammond was born in 1914 in Sunburst and grew up in Swain County. She talks about the school system including attending the Cherokee Indian boarding school. Her family was poor and she started work at a very young age. Hammond talks about a flood in Bryson City and other weather events. She also shares the story of travelling by train to visit her husband who was stationed near the Ozarks.

Hammond, Martha, 1914-

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;

1986-04-27

Crittenden, Lorraine

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

36192

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36192

2019-10-10

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Bryson City (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

19 pages (transcript)(duration)

54:38 (sound recordings)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina