Interview with Martha Sass [DVD]

Publication

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Martha Sass

Martha Sass

Name/Title

Interview with Martha Sass [DVD]

Entry/Object ID

2017.002.018

Description

Interview with Martha Sass, a woman who was raised in the East Side of Charleston. When she was a child, the family moved to Charleston from Cross, SC after the family house burned down there. They first lived on Line Street, then moved to the projects. While living on Line Street, she started attending Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church where she remains very active and involved. Mrs. Sass discusses living in the East Side; her sometimes difficult family life and her social life; going to school (Sanders Clyde, then C.A. Brown) and college (South Carolina State University); various grocery and department stores in the neighborhood and downtown; recreational activities including ice skating at County Hall, going to The Battery, and going to Folly and Mosquito Beach; moving to New York after high school then moving back to Charleston; meeting her husband; her involvement with the Church; Hurricane Hugo; etc. She reminisces about Cross, SC, where she visited throughout her early childhood. She also discusses the changes she has seen in the neighborhood both positive and negative, and her concerns about the future of the East Side. While she feels that she didn't experience racism directly, she was aware of racism and other racial divides in Charleston, and shares a story about her brother's marriage to a Vietnamese woman. Recorded as part of HCF's "Changing Neighborhoods" series, made possible in part by grants from the SC Humanities Commission and the Employees Community Fund of The Boeing Company. Date of interview: 7/17/2017. Interviewed by Katherine Pemberton (HCF) at Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church. Erika Hoffman (HCF), videographer. 1 DVD: 1:08:07 Digital files (MP3/audio and MP4/video) on MyPassport-OralHistory (external hard drive)

Collection

HCF Oral History Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2017.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2017)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

East Side, Lowcountry Digital Library, Changing Neighborhoods, Sass, Martha--Interviews, Neighborhoods--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--South Carolina--Charleston--Social life and customs

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Oral History

Publication Details

Author

Sass, Martha

Series

Historic Charleston Foundation Oral History Project

Date Published

2017

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Location

Location

Container

DVD (Videos) Box 1

Shelf

AV Materials

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: Consent Form and transcript on Media link. MP3 (audio) and MP4 (video) files on MyPassport hard drive.

Created By

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Create Date

October 9, 2017

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023