Ellen Craft Dammond reminiscences

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unitid

{"value"=>"20993", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc MG 650", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1981", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1981"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Ellen Craft Dammond reminiscences"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 letter size folder", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 folder", "unit"=>"folders"}]}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"Dammond, Ellen Craft", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Ellen Dammond (1916-2007), a social worker and personnel supervisor, was descended from both the Fossetts of Monticello and the famous fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft. Her uncle was the equal rights activist William Monroe Trotter. She felt strongly about preserving and passing on the history of the struggles for freedom and equality, and both she and her daughter, Peggy Preacely, were active participants in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Dammond also worked with Polly Cowan and Dorothy Height in the Wednesdays in Mississippi project.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>This collection includes \"The Reminiscences of Ellen Craft Dammond\", a transcript of an interview with Jean Blackwell Hutson as part of an oral history class at Columbia University in 1981.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Received in 1998, unknown donor.</p>"}

bibliography

{"id"=>"aspace_10833cc2afce8e76c12d99c8f79b9a17", "value"=>"<p>Monticello, \"Getting Word, African American Oral History Project: Ellen Craft Dammond.\" Accessed September 10, 2020. https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/ellen-craft-dammond.</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"Shares a box with other oral history transcripts."}

date_start

1981

keydate

1981

date_end

1981

date_inclusive_start

1981

date_inclusive_end

1981

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], Ellen Craft Dammond reminiscences, Sc MG 650, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Ellen Dammond (1916-2007), a social worker and personnel supervisor, was descended from both the Fossetts of Monticello and the famous fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft. Her uncle was the equal rights activist William Monroe Trotter. She felt strongly about preserving and passing on the history of the struggles for freedom and equality, and both she and her daughter, Peggy Preacely, were active participants in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Dammond also worked with Polly Cowan and Dorothy Height in the Wednesdays in Mississippi project. This collection includes \"The Reminiscences of Ellen Craft Dammond\", a transcript of an interview with Jean Blackwell Hutson as part of an oral history class at Columbia University in 1981.", "generated"=>true}

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