- Creator
- Dammond, Ellen Craft
- Call number
- Sc MG 650
- Physical description
- 1 letter size folder (1 folder)
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- [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
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
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.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Received in 1998, unknown donor.
Bibliography
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.
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor