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Interview no. | A-0115 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | A.1. Southern Politics: Bass-DeVries Interviews |
Project description | Interviews, 1973-1975, conducted by Jack Solomon Bass and Walter De Vries with political leaders, journalists, editors, party officials, political scientists, campaign directors, union officials, and civil rights leaders from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as part of a study of politics in the South, 1945-1974. |
Date | 29 March 1974 |
Interviewee | Simmons, William. |
Interviewee occupation | Civic leaders |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Simmons, a citizens' council chair, discusses the private school movement in the South and the council schools in Jackson in particular. Simmons discusses operations, origins, purposes, comparisons with public schools, comparisons of the children attending both, who attends and why, extent of private school system, its future, etc. There is some discussion of the racial and philosophical philosophy behind the movement and some of the role the Citizens Council plays, and may play in the future. |
Subject Topical |
Mississippi--Politics and government. Mississippi--Race relations. |
Citation | Interview with William Simmons by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 29 March 1974. A-0115 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | A0115_Audio_1 |