Interview with Martha Sass
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- Title:
- Interview with Martha Sass
- Date:
- 2017
- Interviewer:
- Historic Charleston Foundation
- Interviewee:
- Sass, Martha
- Description:
- Interview by Katherine Pemberton 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. Grants from both the South Carolina Humanities Commission and the Employees Community Fund of Boeing allowed HCF to proceed with this initiative and several oral history interviews have been conducted that focus on specific neighborhoods and the changes these residents have experienced over time.
- Collection Title:
- Historic Charleston Foundation Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- Historic Charleston Foundation
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Series:
- Changing Neighborhoods
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Sass, Martha--Interviews
- Topical Subject:
- Neighborhoods--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--South Carolina--Charleston--Social life and customs
- Geographic Subject:
- Charleston (S.C.)--Social life and customs, Charleston (S.C.)--History--20th century
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Shelving Locator:
- 2017.002.018
- Date Digital:
- 2017-07-17
- Digitization Specifications:
- MP3 derivative audio created with Adobe Premiere Elements; Archival Master in Universal Disk format.
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Copyright © Historic Charleston Foundation
- Access Statement:
- All Rights Reserved.
- Access Information:
- For more information contact Archivist; Historic Charleston Foundation; P.O. Box 1120; Charleston, SC 29402.
- Admin ID:
- 246471
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