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| Hammondee Green Photo Courtesy: Robert Jackson |
Robert Jackson said that many people seek history from movies, and things of that nature. "How many of you sat down and engage in your family history, " asked Jackson. His great grandfather Hammondee. Through oral history, he was told a small mob of people went to his grandfather's home and asked him to come out of the house to go to jail in Amite, Louisiana. They told him if he didn't come, they were going to burn the house down with his family inside. Fearing for the safety of his family Hammond Green left out the front door to face the mob. It's alleged that his only crime was being a strong African American man. He was a husband, father, son, and brother. He was taken to Amite City Jail and later found hanging in the cell with testicles in his mouth. The family was told that he committed suicide.
According to the Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964, Hammond Green was 35 years old when he; was murdered. He died on October 28, 1956. He was the son of Dolph A. and Ella Coreen Green, he is buried at Jackson Chapel AME Church in Greensburg, Louisiana. He was the brother of; Velma, Margaret, Jesse, Luella, Percy, Roosevelt, Bertha, and Lena Green.
He was working at the Hammond Coca Cola Bottling a Company. He was enlisted in Camp Playche, Louisiana. Company: Co, "E" 10th Bn 2nd Reg., ASFTC., and he Ranked as Pfc.
While many African-American throughout the south fought for Civil Rights, the movement would bring about justice and equality for African-Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. The family of Hammond felt they had no one to turn to according to one family member. " How is it that a man who put his life on the line for the county comes back and Lynch himself and cut his testicles out and stuff them in his mouth said the family member.
