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Levern Hamlin scrapbook
Levern Hamlin scrapbook
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COMMUNITY EFFORT By Harry F< Buchanan Chairman, Cherokee Historical Association In a few swiftly moving years, the Cherokee Historical Association has grown from a nebulous and uncertain beginning into an astonishingly successful organization that is benefiting an area the size of Vermont. The story behind this nonprofit, chartered corporation is the story of men who refused to admit the impossible, of co-operation and selflessness, of a whole area banding together to make a dream come true. Now nine years later it stands as unique symbol of the American way of life and a monument to community enterprise and effort. The organization came into being with the aim of perpetuating the history and traditions of the Cherokee Indians and the pioneer life of the early settlers in North Carolina through the production of Unto These Hills. But with the success of Unto These Hills assured with its opening in July 1, 1950, the original aim of the Association has been broadened and expanded. Elsewhere in this program (See Page 20) there is a detailed outline of other projects which are being carried out by the Cherokee Historical Association. These other projects—all aimed at benefiting the Cherokee and the area—have been made possible by the unbelievable success of Unto These Hills which in seven years has been seen by more than a million persons to establish new attendance records for similar productions. Last season it played to 129,000 persons, a few thousand less than the combined attendance of all the nation's other outdoor historical dramas. As a result, the Association has been able to turn more than a half million dollars into constructive aid to the Cherokee Indians since 1950. Several million additional dollars in benefits have come, not only to the Chreokee but to all of Western North Carolina, through an increase in business generated by Assocation projects. Throug 1956 the Association paid $588,527.00 in salaries alone to Cherokee Indians employed in the various projects. From the beginning, Unto These Hills and other Association projects such as Oconaluftee Indian Village and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, have acted as a new stimulus for the recreational and social development of the Great Smokies region. They have opened up new and needed revenue for the Indians themselves, for the mountain people who make a living through their handicrafts, and for the nearby communities who depend upon the traveling public for a livelihood. Through its efforts the Association has made the nation conscious of the Cherokee and their proud but tragic history. It has opened up a page of American history that had lain forgotten and neglected for more than a hundred years. Three years after the opening of the drama, the Association launched another historically significant project, namely the recreation of a 200-year-old Cherokee Indian village just next door to Mountainside Theatre. It is known as Oconaluftee Indian Village and was re-created in authentic detail and peopled with Cherokee Indians in costume who carry out an ancient way of daily life so this and succeeding generations may know how the Cherokee lived before the white man tamed the American wilderness. This project is being supervised by the Tsali Institute for Cherokee Indian Research, established by the Association with the co-operation of the Universities of North Carolina, Tennessee .and Georgia. In 1951 the North Carolina State Legislature appropriated $25,000 for the erection of Oconaluftee Indian Village with the stipulation the money would be refunded by the Association over a period of years. However, the 1953 General Assembly cancelled the debt because of the Association's contribution year after year to the State through its aid to visitors coming to North Carolina. Two years ago the Association purchased the privately-owned Musemm of the Cherokee Indian here in Cherokee so that the nation's largest and finest collection of Cherokee Indian artifacts and relics would never be removed from the Cherokee capital where they fill in an important chapter of Cherokee culture on the spot where the tribe has lived for a thousand years and more. The story of the Association is a unique story with a Horatio Alger theme. It was sponsored and organized by the Western North Carolina Associated Communities, an eleven-county organization whose story is told on the opposite page by Mr. Percy B. Ferebee, former WNCAC president and now Vice-President of the Cherokee Historical Association. The Association was organized with the sole function of bringing the production of a Cherokee drama to its final realization. The long task of raising funds was begun immediately, with allotments set up in each of the eleven counties in the area. Plans were drawn up for a theatre; arrangements were made for the composing of a play which would embrace the vivid history of the Cherokee Nation. From the very beginning the story of the Cherokee Drama project has been one of teamwork and broad co-operation on the part of hundreds of residents in this area. Business and civic leaders, architects and engineers, members of the Cherokee Nation, the Indian Agency here, the Playmakers of the University of North Carolina, and finally the State of North Carolina itself, all co-operated as individuals and as an organization in promoting the extensive undertaking. The long story of final success was climaxed by one of the most remarkable incidents in the history of North Carolina, or of any other state. When it seemed the vast funds needed for the project could not possibly be raised, a committee went to the State Legislature to seek help. Cherokee Indians sat in committee meetings at Raleigh and explained their need while Association members outlined the purpose of the project. The bill was presented to the Appropriations Committee of the House and was passed unanimously. The House itself voted, and again the bill went through without a dissenting vote. The pattern was the same in the Senate. In all, it was one of the few bills ever to receive unanimous passage in every branch of the legislature. Thus it was that the State of North Carolina voted $35,000 to assure the success of the drama. Never was a project conceived and carried through with more complete and earnest co-operation by so many capable people. Mountainside Theatre and the Cherokee Drama are monuments to their zeal and hard work, and especially to a spirit of faith and unity in the minds and hearts of those people. Nineteen
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This 42-page scrapbook was put together by Levern Hamlin, a Roanoke, Virginia native who moved to Cullowhee, North Carolina in 1957 to attend Western Carolina College. Levern Hamlin was not only the first African American to attend Western Carolina College but the first African American admitted to a North Carolina state college. As a speech therapist practicing in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hamlin decided to further her training in special education through the college’s graduate division. The scrapbook begins with Hamlin’s account of her arrival at WCC on June 11, 1957 and includes numerous clippings describing the significance of her enrollment. The scrapbook contains entries from her summer semester at WCC extending to July 20th, 1957 when she arrived back at her home in Virginia. Hamlin had previously attained a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Virginia’s Hampton Institute in 1956. Also included are pamphlets and clippings at the end of the scrapbook.
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