Princella Hartman Oral History

Object number2006.001.0026

Date05/09/2006

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Princella Hartman

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumHi-8 videotape

DimensionsDuration: 54 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Princella Hartman. Interviewed shortly before her 100th birthday, Hartman shared memories of the African American community in Dallas. Owner of a Dallas rooming house and actively involved in voter registration drives, she was working in an elementary school cafeteria at the time of the assassination. Interview conducted at Ms. Hartman's home on May 9, 2006 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

The remarkable Ms. Hartman lived to be 107. She passed away on September 23, 2013. As of 2022, she remains the third oldest person to record an oral history, after 105-year-old lifelong friends Cecile McKenzie and Elizabeth Sullivan, both interviewed in 2017. The pair passed away within days of each other just a few months later. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator